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  • The App Helping Africa's Midwives Save Lives

    July 06, 2016 |

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    Response Location: Ethiopia

    A mobile health project in Ethiopia gives any health worker with a smartphone access to the information they need to deal with emergencies during childbirth. Now it's being scaled up to reach 10,000 health workers across Africa and Southeast Asia by 2017.

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  • They survived the earthquake. Now they're determined to keep their village healthy.

    April 25, 2016 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: Nepal

    For one village in Nepal, there's a silver lining to the earthquake: A year later, a new and better health clinic is rising from the rubble of the old. And it includes a birthing center.

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  • Solving Cleveland's infant mortality crisis: Saving the Smallest

    March 16, 2016 |

    Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    Cleveland has an alarmingly high rate of infant mortality, there are a large number of infant deaths from SIDS, sleep deaths, and problems stemming from being born prematurely. Programs across Cleveland are growing in order to help address these problems and better serve pregnant mothers, especially the populations that are particularly at-risk.

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  • Innovative 'HUB' model improves infant mortality and saves money: Saving the Smallest

    February 03, 2016 |

    Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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    Response Location: United States, Mansfield, Ohio

    The Pathways Community HUB model, born in Mansfield as way to improve pregnancy outcomes, is becoming a national model. Its success is in large part due to its rewarding only caretakers whose patients achieve certain health milestones.

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  • Cuba's Focus on Preventive Medicine Pays Off

    January 23, 2016 |

    International Reporting Project |

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    Response Location: Cuba

    Cuba’s emphasis on public health, primary care, and training thousands of medical professionals has resulted in health successes and lessons for other countries.

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  • Reducing Unnecessary C-Section Births

    January 19, 2016 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    A pilot project in hospitals in California finds ways to avoid Caesarean sections when the expense and risks are not medically necessary. The need to avoid C-sections stems from the dangers the operation poses to mothers.

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  • India's Maternal Care Crisis: Is There A Solution?

    December 14, 2015 |

    Forbes |

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    Response Location: India, Dombivli

    A social enterprise in India addresses the root causes of the country's maternal health care crisis, studying social and economic factors that contribute to infant deaths, domestic violence, and improper maternal health care practices. The enterprise, SNEHA, builds relationships with mothers to learn about their health and domestic violence history, and offers financial and health care support.

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  • Baltimore's infant mortality efforts at work in poorest neighborhoods: Saving the Smallest

    December 11, 2015 |

    Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    When Baltimore launched a citywide effort to reduce infant mortality in 2009 called B'More for Healthy Babies, Upton Druid Heights was a prime target. That effort has since cut down infant deaths in the city by 24 percent and led to a record low number of annual sleep-related infant deaths.

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  • Five ways cities can reduce infant mortality: Saving the Smallest

    December 11, 2015 |

    Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Baltimore's infant mortality rate has dropped by 24 percent, and health officials there as well as independent research groups have credited the city's B'More for Healthy Babies initiative, launched in 2009.

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  • How Baltimore cut its infant mortality rate: Saving the Smallest

    December 11, 2015 |

    Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Since B'More for Healthy Babies launched in Baltimore in 2009, Baltimore's infant deaths have dropped by 24 percent, outstripping their home state's progress in the same period by a factor of three, and the nation's by four. Cleveland is at the beginning of its own plan to turn around decades of failure in preventing infant deaths.

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