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Is Abiyamo Scheme To The Rescue For Ondo Women After Abiye's Exit?

Shola Ilesanmi

October 29, 2021 |

The Precision NG |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Ondo

The Abiyamo Maternal and Child Health Insurance Scheme provides free maternal and early childhood care, including hospital deliveries, to improve maternal and childhood survival rates. The government made a budgetary provision to guarantee annual funds, ensuring the program will last beyond the current administration. Traditional birth attendants are paid for every woman they refer to a hospital and hospitals are paid via a lump sum or fee-for-service model. Media campaigns and engagement with local stakeholders have helped increase hospital deliveries and while giving women free high-quality care.

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¿Hay un cáncer 100% prevenible? Si, el de cérvix

Mónica Quesada Cordero

October 29, 2021 |

El Colectivo 506 |

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Response Location: Costa Rica

El sistema de salud de Costa Rica ha implementado un programas de tamizaje para el cáncer de cervix que le han permitido disminuir los casos de cáncer avanzado que detectan y así disminuir la mortalidad pro este cancer. El país tiene de los índices más bajos de latinoamérica de mortalidad y de los más altos de supervivencia.

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How a Group of Black Doctors Got Philadelphia Vaccinated

Linda Poon Jeff Green

October 28, 2021 |

Bloomberg CityLab |

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Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

More than half of Philadelphia’s Black residents were vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine due to the efforts of the Black Doctors Consortium: A group of health-care professionals that was present within the community through mobile-testing sites, general health checkups, and a presence that built trust during the pandemic. When the vaccine became available the Black Doctors Consortium was able to draw large numbers of people to their vaccination site.

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¿Sabía que morir del cáncer colorrectal es casi 100% prevenible?

Mónica Quesada Cordero

October 22, 2021 |

El Colectivo 506 |

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Response Location: Costa Rica

Un programa de tamizaje organizado para cáncer colorrectal en el sistema de salud de Costa Rica está mostrando resultados positivos en la prevención y detección temprana de este cáncer, lo que permitierá escalarlo aun tamizaje generalizado en el país.

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‘I understand your concern': Sedgwick County's COVID Ambassador program beats back vaccine hesitancy

Celia Hack

October 21, 2021 |

The Wichita Beacon |

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Response Location: United States, Sedgwick County, Kansas

The COVID Ambassador program trains people to listen, be empathetic, and acknowledge people’s COVID-19 vaccine concerns. Ambassadors’ training includes substantial practice talking to people who are resistant to getting vaccinated and they receive ongoing support at bi-monthly meetings, which has increased their confidence and led to more conversations with community members hesitant to get vaccinated. Like other community health worker programs, the ambassador program’s ability to be successful relies on the idea that people trust information from their peers more than from the government.

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Medication and Recovery: Doctors Say Access to Critical Addiction Care is Difficult in Appalachia

Taylor Sisk

October 21, 2021 |

100 Days in Appalachia |

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Response Location: United States, Wise, Virginia

The Health Wagon provides medical care to those experiencing addiction. The Health Wagon also provides services for those in recovery, including medications, counseling, and peer support groups in an effort to reduce relapses and overdose deaths which have skyrocketed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Unionization could help home health care workers with wages, experts say

Eric D. Lawrence

October 19, 2021 |

Detroit Free Press |

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Response Location: United States, Washington

SEIU represents about 500,000 home care workers nationwide, offering union benefits and protections like individual health care, a retirement program, raises and better wages, additional training and access to personal protective equipment. For many — especially those working in Washington, California, New York and Illinois — unionization is a large part of the solution for home caregivers to receive representation and a living wage.

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Biden plan: How tax credits might be the solution for family caregivers

Madeleine O'Neill

October 19, 2021 |

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |

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Response Location: United States

The Veterans Health Administration's Caregiver Support Program offers resources to family caregivers looking after veterans, including a monthly stipend, medical services, counseling and mental health care, respite care and coverage for travel expenses. The Program launched in 2011 and by 2014 about 15,600 caregivers had been approved for support — greatly exceeding the Program’s original estimate of 4,000 people.

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Biden caregiving plan: Housing availability, politics hinder transition to more in-home care

David Robinson

October 19, 2021 |

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |

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Response Location: United States

The Money Follows the Person is a federal program that increases access to Medicaid funds for home and community care services for people transitioning out of institutional care. The program has helped more than 101,000 people move out of long-term care facilities into community or home living. The program has also helped people save money by cutting taxpayers’ Medicaid and Medicare bills by about 23% for each person who was moved out of a nursing home or other institution. Based on the program’s success, the current administration is reviewing plans to extend or make Money Follows the

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Biden's $400B plan to overhaul home care is 'more of a repair effort than a new direction'

Sarah Taddeo

October 19, 2021 |

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |

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Response Location: United States, New York

Several government programs and funding measures are emerging to improve home care options for families in need, such as increasing wages and benefit opportunities for providers. There are also nonprofits like All Things Home Care that provide transportation to area home care workers and represents its workers with a union to afford them better treatment to ensure those in need can still receive necessary care at home.

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