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How cancer patients are getting funding for treatment in Nigeria

Mustapha Usman

June 03, 2022 |

International Centre for Investigative Reporting |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Benue

Project Pink Blue helps cancer patients access treatment by raising funds, training medical personnel, and connecting patients in need with sponsors through their Adopt a Patient initiative. Project Pink Blue has also advocated for better healthcare policies in the state and even provides jobs to cancer survivors to help integrate them back into society.

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Can We Build Less Biased Medical Bots?

Tolu Olasoji

April 11, 2022 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

Melalogic is an app that provides skin health resources to people with dark skin. The uses crowdsourced imaging data to confront racial bias in diagnostic artificial intelligence. Users can access the Black Skin Resource Center with information on 14 issues that affect people with darker skin. The app also shares health posters that physicians use to share information with their patients and videos with dermatologic tips. In the works is Melalogic 2.0, an immersive telehealth experience.

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Can Produce Prescription Programs Turn the Tide on Diet-Related Disease?

Lela Nargi

April 11, 2022 |

Civil Eats |

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Response Location: United States, Alameda County, California

ALL IN is a produce prescription program that gives patients, who are dealing with a variety of cardio-metabolic or behavioral conditions, free fruits and vegetables paired with behavioral interventions, like exercise. Its “three-ingredient approach” includes a prescription for 16 weekly bags of produce that are delivered for free by a local farm, free exercise and stress-reduction classes, and food-as-medicine training for clinic staff who are key in patients’ success.

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Ugandan Mothers Honor Call to Donate Breast Milk, Save Preterm Babies at First Human Milk Bank

Rhonet Atwiine

April 09, 2022 |

Solutions Now Africa |

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Response Location: Uganda, Kampala

The human milk bank at St. Francis Hospital opened in 2021 and is the first of its kind in the country. About eight mothers donate breast milk to the bank each day, which is then used to provide the necessary nutrients for the health and development of pre-term babies and those fighting illnesses.

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'Forever Chemicals,' COVID And Results From A New At-Home PFAS Test

Julie Watts

March 31, 2022 |

KOVR-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States

A first-of-its-kind at-home test can detect PFAS levels in the body with a finger prick. Also known as forever chemicals, PFAS are linked to various health concerns.

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Anti-vax preachers and the race to vaccinate South Sudan

Seyi Rhodes

March 27, 2022 |

Unreported World |

Documentary |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: South Sudan

Crown Agents is an international development organization working to get people vaccinated against COVID-19, despite vaccine shortages and misinformation from anti-vaxxers.

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‘Chipping away at barriers': Nurse practitioners filling primary-care gap

Mary-Kay Whittaker

March 15, 2022 |

Healthy Debate |

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Response Location: Canada, Ontario

Nurse practitioner-led clinics in Ontario, Canada, are open for same-day appointments to care for people without a primary health-care provider and decrease the number of emergency-room patients.

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Tucson crisis center expanding services for faster mental health care

Caitlin Schmidt

March 03, 2022 |

Arizona Daily Star |

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Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

The Crisis Response Center provides mental health and crisis care services as an alternative to emergency rooms or jails. The center is staffed 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and offers a variety of services focused on recovery for children, teens and adults struggling with mental health and/or substance abuse. The Center is set to expand ahead of the new 988 dialing code for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Once expansions are done, the Center will have the capacity to serve between 400 and 600 extra visits a month, on top of the 800 to 1,000 adults who visit the center each month.

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Faith based group offers hope to girls suffering vesicovaginal fistula

Udeh Obaziota

February 24, 2022 |

Sparkling 92.3 FM |

Radio |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: Nigeria, Calabar, Cross River

Medical Missionaries of Mary is a Christian faith-based organization that works to complement the government's efforts of helping those experiencing vesicovaginal fistula by providing access to surgery for free. The group also addresses stigma around the condition and helps create a sense of community for patients.

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When the Doctor is Just a Truck Away

Vanessa Obioha

February 23, 2022 |

This Day Live |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

The MTN Y’ello Doctor initiative is a medical outreach program that targets underserved communities via mobile clinic trucks. The mobile clinic truck increases healthcare access, helps with healthcare costs, and provides services like treatment for malaria, vaccinations, and screening for other conditions. The trucks provide healthcare to anyone who needs it but has a focus on children and expecting mothers. So far, a total of 97,844 patients have been treated for various ailments thanks to the mobile clinics.

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