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Global Rate Of HIV Infection, AIDS-Related Deaths Dramatically Reduced: UN

Kate Kelland

September 23, 2013 |

The Huffington Post |

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Response Location: Switzerland, Geneva

HIV/AIDS infection and death rates are down world-wide, due to an increasing access to anti-retroviral treatment that has come from private donations, UN-work, and increased public health spending by heavily affected countries.

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It really does take a village: How Memphis is fixing healthcare

Alex Halperin

September 03, 2013 |

Salon |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Memphis, Tennessee

Preventing and treating chronic disease for low-income patients is one of the most vexing and expensive public health problems in this country - the healthcare system in Memphis, Tennessee, is not immune. But in the middle of the last decade, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, Memphis’s largest hospital system, began teaming up with churches to address the city’s abysmal health situation and reduce the cost of care.

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Talking Female Circumcision Out of Existence

Tina Rosenberg

July 17, 2013 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Ethiopia, Kembata Alaba and Tembaro, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region

There is nothing more difficult than changing entrenched cultural practices, especially those as shrouded in taboos as female genital cutting. A grassroots approach in Ethiopia, however, has nearly completely eradicated this practice in villages that use it.

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HPV Vaccine Is Credited in Fall of Teenagers' Infection Rate

Sabrina Tavernise

June 19, 2013 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

The human papillomavirus is a primary cause of cervical cancer. The HPV vaccine has reduced the rate of infection by half in recent years among teenagers. However, the vaccine has still encountered resistance by some social conservatives.

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The Sense of an Ending

Rebecca Mead

May 20, 2013 |

The New Yorker |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

More than five million Americans have Alzheimer’s or similar illnesses, and that number is growing as the population ages - without any immediate prospect of a cure, advocacy groups have begun promoting ways to offer people with dementia a comfortable decline instead of imposing on them a medical model of care, which seeks to defer death through escalating interventions. An Arizona nursing home offers new ways to care for people with dementia.

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Medicine by Text Message: Learning From the Developing World

Courtney E. Martin

April 04, 2013 |

The Atlantic |

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Response Location: Malawi

Health communication systems designed for rural, developing countries -- where hospitals are often understaffed and transportation is inadequate -- are being adapted to improve care in U.S. cities.

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Where YouTube Meets the Farm

David Bornstein

April 03, 2013 |

The New York Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: India, Karnataka

To combat hunger and malnutrition, Digital Green, an N.G.O., is creating and delivering videos about cheap, innovative farming techniques that can substantially increase small farmers' production of staple foods in India, Ghana, and Ethiopia.

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Lessons From America's Safest Hospitals

Beth Howard

April 01, 2013 |

AARP Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

An estimated 6,000 "never events" — egregious errors like operations on the wrong limb or instruments left inside a surgical wound — occur every month among Medicare patients alone. Hospitals across the country are revamping their care programs to stop preventable injuries and deaths.

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In One Simple Tool, Hope for H.I.V. Prevention

Patrick Adams

March 20, 2013 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Tanzania

PrePex, a new nonsurgical circumcision tool, could revolutionize the prevention of H.I.V. and AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. Cheap and easy to assemble, the device has proven successful in several randomized trials.

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When Deviants Do Good

Tina Rosenberg

February 27, 2013 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Vietnam, Hanoi

Tuft University is training global organizations a new approach to create long lasting change. The process teaches locals to identify positive deviance in their community and design a way to spread the behavior, with only local ideas and administration.

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