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  • How Anambra school children have become hygiene ambassadors

    August 02, 2018 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Aguata, Anambra

    Students in Nigeria's Ezinifite school are working to promote good hygiene at school and at home. The school installed flush toilets and hand-washing stations to cut down on the spread of germs. Now, students are taking their hygiene practices home.

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  • A tiny tweak to sugar is about to make the world's sweets a lot healthier

    August 02, 2018 |

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    Response Location: Israel, Tel Aviv District

    Sugar has proven to be a hard element to replace due to its inefficiency at being recognized by human's tastebuds. While substitutions have been attempted, most have failed to successfully replicate the desired taste. A father-son team in Israel, however, may have found the answer to creating healthier foods with less added sugars by changing the way the substance is delivered to tastebuds.

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  • Can India's "quack" doctors be trained in 100 hours?

    August 02, 2018 |

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    Response Location: India, Kolkata

    ‘Quack” doctors—people illegally seeing and treating patients without a license—is a common sight in rural India. A new program seeks to train, rather than eliminate, these “doctors” and use them to expand the reach of the healthcare workforce.

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  • Project Lifesaver aids in locating missing people with Alzheimer's, dementia

    August 02, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Ohio

    It's not uncommon for individuals diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, dementia or developmental disorders to be reported missing by concerned family members. Thanks to Project Lifesaver, a program that utilizes personal radio transmitters and radio frequency technology, law enforcement agencies are much more efficiently equipped to find the missing individuals.

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  • How This DC Birth Center Is Building the ‘Answer for Black Women'

    July 31, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    Community of Hope, a health clinic, is offering a prenatal program called “Centering Pregnancy.” Participants meet bi weekly and cover topics related to pregnancy until the end of their term. The goal is to improve the lives of vulnerable populations, in particular black women who face disproportionately higher rates of maternal mortality rates. "137 women came through the Centering program, representing 78 percent of the delivery clients seen by the nurse midwives at FHBC," and "only 5.8 percent gave birth preterm, and 4.6 percent had infants born underweight."

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  • With Venezuela in chaos, we found new ways to keep healthcare running

    July 31, 2018 |

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    Response Location: Venezuela, Caracas

    When faced with a health care crisis, El Hatillo Municipality in Caracas, Venezuela took community health into their own hands through partnerships and expanded access. Focusing on populations identified as the most vulnerable, the municipality implemented initiatives including in-home healthcare services, a health pregnancy program and a school health program.

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  • Sperm ‘washing' procedure boosts fight against Aids

    July 31, 2018 |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    A relatively inexpensive procedure known as “sperm washing” can prevent HIV transmission from a hopeful father to the mother and baby. A spinning device separates sperm from seminal fluid, the primary transmitter of HIV. The procedure can also be helpful for women with endometriosis.

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  • Training India's Fake Doctors

    July 30, 2018 |

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    Response Location: India, West Bengal

    A 9-month course is giving India’s rural healthcare workers their first formal education in medicine. The program doesn’t solve the problem of underqualified people casting themselves as doctors. However, it has helped participants offer better care to their communities, which typically don’t have access to licensed doctors.

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  • New York City Launches Initiative to Eliminate Racial Disparities in Maternal Death

    July 30, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    To combat racial disparities in maternal health care, New York is funding a partnership program between the city and communities to improve maternal healthcare for women of color. Both public and private hospitals will implement implicit bias training and the city will work to improve its data collection. Hospitals will also receive funds for health coordinators to make sure women are accessing care.

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  • To Keep Women From Dying In Childbirth, Look To California

    July 29, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Pomona, California

    A collaborative of California hospitals has developed standard procedures for situations that threaten a mother’s life during childbirth as well as a “toolkit” of everything staff need for a rapid response. As a result, maternal death rates fell by 55% over the first seven years of the collaborative.

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