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  • How Anambra Is Transforming Primary Healthcare Through Telemedicine

    June 26, 2025 |

    Radio Nigeria |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Anambra

    Anambra State’s telemedicine program is closing the healthcare access gap in rural communities, making universal health coverage more possible. The program began in 2022 and has since hired and trained 42 doctors in providing remote healthcare. As more people use the telemedicine program, public trust in primary healthcare across the region is increasing.

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  • Nevada tribe is bridging the healthcare gap with a mobile clinic that serves 2,000 tribal patients

    June 25, 2025 |

    KUNR |

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    Response Location: Paiute Tribe, United States, Lovelock, Nevada

    The Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe’s mobile health clinic makes healthcare more accessible to those in a region where traveling to hospitals or doctor offices is often a challenge. Funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the mobile clinic has served around 2,000 patients, averaging about 20 each month.

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  • One Community Took a Radical Approach to Fighting Addiction. It's Working.

    June 15, 2025 |

    Wall Street Journal |

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    Response Location: United States, Chesterfield, Virginia

    Chesterfield County, Virginia implemented a multi-faceted response to the opioid crisis, including a jail-based recovery program, Helping Addicts Recover Progressively (HARP), that brings people in recovery to the local jail to talk about addiction and treatment resources. Combined with other efforts, overdose deaths have dropped by half in a single year, and around 4,000 people have participated in HARP.

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  • A PTSD Therapy 'Seemed Too Good to Be True'

    June 02, 2025 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Reconsolidation of Traumatic Memories (RTM) is an unconventional therapy for treating PTSD without the intense emotional pain of traditional approaches like reliving traumatic memories. Despite barriers like minimal research and skepticism, early evidence suggests patients may be more likely to complete RTM therapy and eliminate their PTSD symptoms quicker than with traditional forms of therapy.

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  • This house overwhelms me and no one is grateful

    May 28, 2025 |

    El Colectivo 506 |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Bogotá

    Bogotá's Manzanas del Cuidado (Caregiving Blocks) provides free services like education, counseling, and skills training at 25 neighborhood locations to reduce the burden on women caregivers, successfully empowering participants to complete high school, gain new skills, and find employment opportunities. It's become a pioneering model in Latin America for recognizing unrenumerating labors. Read this article in Spanish here: https://solu.news/zfxr

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  • In southeast Kansas, housing is treated as health care, and people are getting off the streets

    May 19, 2025 |

    Kansas Reflector |

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    Response Location: United States, Pittsburg, Kansas

    The Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas and its subsidiary Building Health act as safety nets for uninsured people experiencing homelessness by expanding the definition of healthcare to also include housing, serving about 85,000 people a year. By providing wraparound care and services from help finding housing to legal assistance and education, the groups’ combined efforts helped shrink the rate of uninsured, unhoused people from 16% in 2020 to about 12% now.

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  • Abiye: Ondo's Community-Based Model for Maternal and Child Care Encounters Setbacks

    May 19, 2025 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Akure, Ondo

    The Abiye Project registered over 20,000 pregnant women using a community-based model to ensure they receive proper healthcare. The program connected women with trained health rangers who served as liaisons with traditional birth attendants (TBAs). When TBAs’ resistance stalled the program, the government introduced financial incentives, paying them for each patient referral, leading to more hospital births and a reduced child and maternal mortality rate.

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  • La casa agobia y nadie agradece

    May 18, 2025 |

    El Turbión |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Bogotá

    El Sistema Distrital de Cuidado de Bogotá, implementado desde 2020 con sus 25 Manzanas del Cuidado como estrategia central, es un modelo pionero en América Latina por reconocer el trabajo no remunerado. Ha logrado transformar la vida de mujeres cuidadoras ofreciéndoles espacios gratuitos de formación, apoyo psicojurídico y desarrollo personal que les han permitido retomar estudios, fortalecer su autoestima y acceder a redes de apoyo. Puedes leer este artículo en inglés aquí: https://solu.news/wiva

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  • In FCT, People Are Dancing Their Way To Better Mental Health

    May 14, 2025 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

    A professional dance therapist in Abuja has developed a dance therapy program to address the country’s mental health crisis. He conducts guided movement sessions beginning with emotional check-ins and uses music to help participants express feelings non-verbally. His approach targets individuals with anxiety, stress, depression, and even those with physical conditions like strokes. The program reports reaching over 1,500 people with a claimed 90% success rate.

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  • An Emergency Tele-Hailing Initiative Is Helping Lagos Residents Reach Ambulances in Eight Minutes or Less

    May 12, 2025 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    Eight Medical is a technology-driven emergency medical service that uses real-time communication systems to deliver ambulance services within 10 minutes or less. The service has 45 control center staff, over 400 field personnel, and over 25 ambulances, and operates under a “care now, pay later” scheme, making emergency healthcare more affordable. Since launching, it has received over 15,000 calls and saved about 8,000 lives by providing fast, life-saving care.

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