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Activists Win a Battle for Women's Reproductive Healthcare in a Rural Colorado Town

Ilana Newman

January 16, 2024 |

The Daily Yonder |

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Response Location: United States, Cortez, Colorado

Local activists are joining together to protest the potential closure of Southwest Memorial Hospital’s birthing center, advocating and organizing to ensure the hospital stays open and locals can access the care they need in rural areas.

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As the U.S. Struggles With a Stillbirth Crisis, Australia Offers a Model for How to Do Better

Duaa Eldeib

January 10, 2024 |

ProPublica |

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Response Location: Australia

With its focus on research and the launch of the Safer Baby Bundle, Australia is ahead of the curve in preventing stillbirths. The Safer Baby Bundle includes evidence-based practices to prevent stillbirths including helping pregnant patients quit smoking, regularly monitoring fetal growth and movement and encouraging safe pregnancy practices like sleeping on one’s side. Since the launch of these strategies, the country sees about six stillbirths a day, whereas the U.S. experiences about 60 stillbirths each day.

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Detroit agency launches mobile mental health unit. Can it slow a revolving door?

Robin Erb

January 08, 2024 |

BridgeDetroit |

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Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

The Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network launched a series of mobile response vans that travel to area parks, libraries and neighborhoods to address the community’s growing mental health needs. The vans are intended to more proactively reach people experiencing a mental health crisis and minimize emergency room visits and police confrontations by getting them the appropriate care.

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An Overdose Antidote Goes Viral

Elizabeth Hewitt

January 04, 2024 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: United States, Middletown, New York

Studies show that people who received at least one dose of naloxone following an opioid overdose are 11 times more likely to survive. In response, state policies and community-level programs and organizations are working to make naloxone accessible to those who need it. Today, naloxone can be found in grocery stores, gas stations, provided at events like concerts and community spaces like libraries.

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Keene-based syringe exchange becoming a resource for gender-affirming care

James Rinker

December 30, 2023 |

Sentinel Source (The Keene Sentinel) |

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Response Location: United States, Keene, New Hampshire

The G.R.O.W. syringe service program (SSPs) helps people who use drugs and those who need injection supplies for gender-affirming hormone therapy get access to clean syringes and safely dispose of needles. Community-based programs like G.R.O.W. also offer first-aid kits, at-home HIV tests, Narcan and personal care items. There are currently 13 SSPs registered in the state. In 2023, G.R.O.W. alone distributed more than 44,400 syringes and collected about 37,700.

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Hurt and homeless with no place to heal: Could a successful Oregon program be a model for Clark County?

Alexis Weisend

December 23, 2023 |

The Columbian |

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Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

Central City Concern’s Evergreen Crossing provides 90 respite beds, as well as a primary care clinic to help those recovering from addiction or other illnesses avoid homelessness. People staying in the facility can recover in a stable environment, undergo further treatment, receive mental health care and work with a case manager to find a job and secure housing.

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Solar panels illuminate path to improved care

Vandana K

December 13, 2023 |

Harvard Public Health |

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Response Location: India, Mawtawar, Meghalaya

The Indian government and the solar nonprofit Selco Foundation partnered to install solar panels at health facilities across the country to address blackouts that prevented them from providing adequate care.

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Copline: a hotline for law enforcement to call on their worst days

Grant Ritchey

December 10, 2023 |

Richland Source |

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Response Location: United States, Mount Vernon, Virginia

Copline is a hotline for law enforcement, run by law enforcement that gives on-duty cops a place to talk and vent anonymously with people who understand what they’re going through. Copline receives about 400 calls a month and those who call the hotline can also get recommendations for mental health services in their area, like AA meetings and outpatient treatment options.

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“If Your Cycle is Normal, Why Play with It?”

Sneha Khedkar

December 07, 2023 |

The Xylom |

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Response Location: India, Mumbai

Some people who experience debilitating periods are using hormone therapy as a means to manage or suppress menstruation. These norethisterone tablets can be seen as a tool for reproductive freedom, allowing people to have some control over when and how their body menstruates.

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University students across Chicago influence schools to stock period products

Annabel Rocha

December 01, 2023 |

ILLatinoNews.com (Illinois Latino News) |

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Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

Blood Buds is a university student-led organization that works to fight period poverty by contacting student advisors to ensure period product dispensers across campus are consistently filled. The group also pushed the university to add a contact number to dispensers to students can call or text to let someone know the machine is empty. Currently, the university has 34 dispensers across campus.

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