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  • The Secret To Polio Eradication In India

    Devin Thorpe

    March 15, 2014 |

    Forbes |

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    Response Location: India, New Delhi

    Population scale and density, insanitary conditions, and malnourishment meant that eradicating polio in India was a tall order. The government, alongside WHO, managed to do it in 2014 using a comprehensive approach.

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  • An End to Polio in India?

    Esha Chhabra

    March 05, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: India, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh

    India has, for years, been a hotbed of polio. Supported by the WHO as well as local health-care workers, immunizations have officially rid the country of the disease. There are still challenges in maintaining records and reaching everyone, but the message continously changes and adapts.

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  • Strung out in Tanzania

    Sarika Bansal

    March 03, 2014 |

    Al Jazeera |

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    Response Location: Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam

    Less than 1 percent of drug addicts in Africa receive treatment because the issue is disfavored by donors. The national government of Tanzania demanded evidence-based treatment options and is curbing relapses by distributing a drug which temporarily lessens cravings.

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  • Scientists search Palau's coral reefs for new anti-cancer drugs

    Ari Daniel Shapiro

    February 24, 2014 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Palau

    Often it is faster and easier to harvest molecules for medical purposes from nature than to make them in a laboratory. A scientist is looking for cancer-fighting molecules in coral and sponges in the tropical Pacific.

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  • A Small West Virginia Town Rallies For Better Health

    Ankita Rao

    February 05, 2014 |

    KFF Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Williamson, West Virginia

    “Sustainable Williamson” combined ideas and initiatives from local officials, community members, nonprofit organizations to address both the economy and the well-being of a community where unemployment and drug use were climbing.

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  • An Afghan Success Story: Fewer Child Deaths

    Sean Carberry

    February 04, 2014 |

    NPR |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: Afghanistan, Guldara

    Child mortality rates are decreasing in Afghanistan due to more readily available basic health care, more effective vaccinations, and locally-trained volunteer health workers.

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  • Playing With Toys and Saving Lives

    Tina Rosenberg

    January 29, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Nicaragua, Jinotepe, Carazo

    Many different people are inventing health devices for resource-poor settings, but some organizations - like M.I.T.’s Little Devices group - are empowering developing communities and increasing access to healthcare by building medical devices that nurses and doctors in very poor settings can adapt themselves — or kits for making their own, often harvesting parts from toys to cleverly rig up medical equipment. It’s part of a major idea shift, one that’s transforming the design of foreign aid.

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  • The Hospital Is No Place for the Elderly

    Jonathan Rauch

    December 01, 2013 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    As the elderly become more likely to have multiple chronic conditions and experience a gradual decline in health towards the end of their lives, a health care approach that centers hospitalization and intensive care might be ineffective and inefficient. Sutter's Advanced Illness Management program (AIM) is using a new, home-based approach to keep down costs and increase quality of life.

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  • Treating the Village to Cure the Disease

    Jason Silverstein

    November 06, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Togo

    In communities across Africa, health workers are going house to house with medicine to combat lymphatic filariasis, which is the world’s second-largest cause of chronic disability. They are participating in a strategy called mass drug administration, which treats everyone in an area where a disease is found – even if they aren’t sick or infected.

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  • Art Program in Harlem Strives to Improve Quality of Life for Those Affected by Alzheimer's and Dementia

    Contessa Gayles

    October 24, 2013 |

    NewsDoc Voices |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Arts & Minds is a program run by the Studio Museum in Harlem that provides opportunities for people with Alzheimer’s and their caregivers to be creative and express themselves in a way that does not require language. While similiar to the programs of other museums, the Studio Museum’s program is unique in that by its location it is accessible to people of a lower socioeconomic status compared to museums located in wealthier Manhattan neighborhoods.

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