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  • Caring for kids with spina bifida can be difficult, but Nigerian parents are learning new ways of doing it

    The Festus Fajemilo Foundation teaches parents how to care for children with spina bifida and hydrocephalus and helps fund treatment and surgery costs for families who can’t afford it. The foundation connects with parents through social media, radio, TV, and public lectures like its annual “Go-Folic” campaign which encourages women on the importance of folic acid and has reached 10,000 people so far.

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  • Kids' health is impacted most by life outside a doctor's office, so Children's Hospital is treating social-economic wellness, too

    The Resource Connect program began in 2019 and works to connect families with children in need with necessary resources like food, diapers, and school supplies. The point is to address the factors outside the doctor’s office that affect children’s health. In the three years since it opened, Resource Connect has helped 4,235 patients get social services.

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  • How Cleft Surgery Unites Families, Saves Lives

    Smile Train is a non-government organization that helps families that are struggling financially to afford cleft lip and palate surgeries for their children in need. Since 2007, Smile Train has successfully paid for 31,000 successful surgeries and has a presence in 45 hospitals across the country.

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  • In Sierra Leone, this initiative is last hope for some children with life-threatening conditions

    Volunteers of the Sick Pikin Project raise money for children in need of medical treatment by traveling the streets of Nigeria with postcards about their stories and asking for donations. The program has helped 226 children so far.

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  • Clubfoot Feature Story

    The Mulago Clubfoot Clinic treats children born with clubfoot deformities with nonsurgical methods. There are currently 28 clinics scattered across regional hospitals, increasing access to treatment for those in need.

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  • Some believe hydrocephalus is a spiritual attack, how a Kwara-based initiative is tackling the notion

    Givers Supportive Foundation provides free surgery for children with hydrocephalus and other chronic childhood illnesses by connecting with a network of neurosurgeons abroad. Beyond the surgeries, the organization also doubles as counselors and arranges one-on-one discussions with the parents of young patients with hydrocephalus, offering support throughout the treatment process.

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  • MUAC Approach, enabling Timely Diagnosis of Severe Malnutrition

    Mid-Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC) tapes are color-coded measuring tapes that help parents and healthcare workers to determine if a child is malnourished by measuring the circumference of their arm. Using the MUAC tapes empowers parents to identify and address the signs of malnutrition, rather than relying exclusively on healthcare providers.

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  • New Orlando clinic helping identify, support children with fetal alcohol syndrome

    The Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children works in partnership with the Florida Center to identify children with fetal alcohol syndrome disorders and helps family members create care plans for the lifelong effects of the disorder.

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  • Strengthening Surveillance and Vaccine Uptake to Curb the Transmission of Circulating Vaccine Derived Polio Virus in Kano State

    Outbreak Response teams travel from house to house in Kano, Nigeria, making sure children are vaccinated against wild poliovirus to prevent its spread.

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  • The Doctor Is Out, and These Babies Are Healthier For It

    The Karnataka Internet Assisted Diagnosis of Retinopathy of Prematurity program has trained and accredited non-physician imagers to screen premature newborns for retina disease, which has a small window of diagnosis for treatment to be effective. This “task-shifting” model allows trained imagers to replace specialists for the screening by going into the field and using a low-cost and indigenously developed camera to upload images to a telemedicine platform, where a retina specialist makes a diagnosis. They have screened 70,000 infants and several other countries have adopted KIDROP’s “task-shifting” model.

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