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MUAC Approach, enabling Timely Diagnosis of Severe Malnutrition

Hasifah Namuli

July 06, 2022 |

Metro FM 90.8 |

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Response Location: Uganda

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

Karla Ray

April 21, 2022 |

WFTV-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Orlando, Florida

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

Bashar Abubakar

January 17, 2022 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

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

Priti Salian

December 10, 2021 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: India

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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New Mid-South clinic helps kids from missing yearly check-ups

Kelli Cook

July 31, 2021 |

WMC-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Memphis, Tennessee

Legacy of Legends, a nonprofit that helps families overcome traumatic experiences that often stem from poverty, opened the Frayser Clinic to provide free wellness exams to children. The clinic is run out of a local church and is open twice a month to help families access care. At each visit a doctor assesses a child’s physical health, mental and behavioral health and the clinic provides families with information about social services and connects them with a healthcare navigator, who helps families understand their child’s health insurance and reconnect them to a primary care physician.

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Colorado screening newborn babies for spinal muscular atrophy

Jennifer Brown

July 12, 2021 |

The Colorado Sun |

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Response Location: United States, Colorado

A joint project between Wyoming and Colorado screens newborns for spinal muscular atrophy, allowing them to receive gene therapies to prevent the deadly disease’s progression. Once researchers identified a protein missing from the cells of people with the disease, they developed treatments that are most effective the earlier they are started. The tests have significantly increased the number of cases identified across the two states, all of which are sent to Children’s Hospital Colorado for immediate treatment. Most babies are diagnosed within four days of birth and can start treatment soon after that.

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Nutrition Interventions Securing Livelihoods in Hard-to-Reach Areas of Borno

Patrick Egwu

June 29, 2021 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Borno State

Doctors Without Borders treats malnutrition in areas of Nigeria facing food shortages due to violence and insurgency. When safe, it runs a mobile clinic to provide basic health care, including nutritional support, particularly to children. When communities are not safe enough to enter, the organization trains community members in basic patient care and provides them the tools to run basic tests and treat malnutrition. Community health workers are also trained to treat patients, dispense medications, and educate caregivers about child nutrition.

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How therapeutic clowning injects humour for a different kind of healing

Sarah Treleaven

March 05, 2021 |

Broadview Magazine |

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Response Location: Canada, Toronto, Ontario

A growing therapeutic clowning community is helping to bring emotional relief to children and the elderly who are in hospitals and eldercare facilities. While not all patients are receptive to this play therapy, of those who are, some have shown both emotional and medical improvements in their conditions.

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'Our work is about joy': the artists redesigning hospitals for kids

Anna Rahmanan

March 03, 2021 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: United States, New York

RxArt is a non-profit organization that works to brighten up children's wings in hospitals with art installations. The artwork is vibrant and often covers entire rooms and hallways, eliciting positive reactions from the children who must undergo stressful tests and hospital stays.

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CHOP financial wellness program helps local families recoup $700K

Jessica Blatt Press

January 07, 2021 |

The Philadelphia Citizen |

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Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

A pediatric care center in Philadelphia has partnered with a nonprofit that "helps people with tax prep and asset-building" as well as an organization that provides financial counselors to offer young patients free, on-site help with their taxes. The initiative is modeled after Boston Medical Center' StreetCred program which has "returned more than $5.3 million to more than 2,700 low-income families since 2016."

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