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How Saanich Peninsula's Shoreline Medical Society has been fighting the doctor shortage

Emily Fagan

February 11, 2022 |

Capital Daily |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Canada, Saanich Peninsula, British Columbia

Shoreline Medical is a non-profit primary care network on the Saanich Peninsula that has expanded residents’ access to primary care doctors. The group has successfully attracted family care doctors despite a severe shortage through combining community and hospital-based care. Doctors spend five weeks working in family medicine and one week assisting with low-severity cases in the emergency room. The physician staffing growth has allowed Shoreline to increase their patient case load to over 17,000 residents, 11,000 of whom previously lacked a primary care doctor.

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The urine revolution: how recycling pee could help to save the world

Chelsea Wald

February 09, 2022 |

Nature |

Photojournalism |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Sweden, Gotland

Companies and research initiatives around the world are developing and testing new toilets that can collect human urine and turn it into fertilizer. These urine diversion toilets have been implemented in places like South Africa with mixed results. However, researchers in Sweden are using portable toilets to gather the urine, dry it into fertilizer pellets that are then used to grow barley for beer. This work could show how to implement these kinds of toilets on a large scale.

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ResQZone

Amanda Anderdson

February 08, 2022 |

KWCM-PBS |

Broadcast TV Programs |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Marshall, Minnesota

An e-waste recycling program in Minnesota aims to take old computers that normally end up in a landfill and give them to community members with income-based needs. Since the ResQZone initiative started as a partnership between a nonprofit and the county government, they’ve been able to get 420 computer systems back into public use. They also hire and train people with disabilities to do the refurbishing.

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From a Fact-Finding Visit to Providing Safe Water for Sauka Community

Chibuike Alagboso

February 07, 2022 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Sauka

The international organization Riders for Health provided an electric generator to a community in Nigeria to power their water pump and get them access to clean drinking water.

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Can Farmers Help Each Other Navigate Mental Health Crises?

Lela Nargi

February 01, 2022 |

Civil Eats |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Wisconsin

Programs like Farm Well Wisconsin, offer behavioral and wellness services to help farmers experiencing mental health challenges. These programs provide mental health resources as well as training to identify signs of stress and employ active listening tactics. Since 2021, Farm Well Wisconsin has trained about 150 farmers and community members in these mental health skills.

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Through Crowdfunding, An Initiative Helps Communities Access Clean Water

Zubaida Baba Ibrahim

February 01, 2022 |

HumAngle |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Nigeria

Through the #BuildAWell project, the Water the Needy Foundation uses crowdfunding to build wells, boreholes, and manual hand pumps in Nigerian communities without consistent access to clean water. The organization has worked with more than 400 communities since 2017 and contracts with local workers to encourage a sense of community responsibility for the projects and ensure ongoing maintenance of the wells.

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To Stem Shootings, Poughkeepsie Is Bringing Therapy Directly to City Streets

Ann Givens

January 31, 2022 |

The Trace |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Poughkeepsie, New York

SNUG Street Outreach is a state-funded violence prevention program that brings mental health care out into the community to the places where people spend their time. Trained social workers go out into the street, people’s homes and local businesses where they establish relationships and slowly build up to providing counseling through more casual conversations, even over text messages. A community-based approach allows them to connect with people who are at high-risk of committing gun violence, as well as people who have been victims of gun violence themselves or in their social networks or communities.

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Baisse du taux de mortalité lié au paludisme en Côte d'Ivoire

Suy Kahofi

January 24, 2022 |

Eburnie Today |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: Côte d'Ivoire

Les efforts de la Côte d’Ivoire portent leurs fruits puisque le nombre de décès dus au paludisme est passé de 3 222 en 2017 à 1 316 en 2020, soit un taux de mortalité en baisse d’environ 50%. Si la maladie est encore loin d'être éradiquée, moustiquaires gratuites, traitement préveventif pour les femmes enceintes et sensibilisation font leur effet.

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The ‘AI-Powered Midwife' Helping Pregnant Nigerian Women and Newborns Stay Healthy

Innocent Eteng

January 24, 2022 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos State

Encouraged by her own pregnancy experience, medical technology expert Abisola Oladapo worked with two of her colleagues to create Sister Agnes. It is an AI system that delivers periodic, timely information to pregnant women by calls and texts in local languages to empower them with information about their health. 79 percent of the women who used the service delivered in health centers, were four times more likely to survive the pregnancy, and the survival rate of their children was 33 percent higher than the national average.

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Strengthening Surveillance and Vaccine Uptake to Curb the Transmission of Circulating Vaccine Derived Polio Virus in Kano State

Bashar Abubakar

January 17, 2022 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

Outbreak Response teams travel from house to house in Kano, Nigeria, making sure children are vaccinated against wild poliovirus to prevent its spread.

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