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  • Facing the Future of HIV Care

    August 04, 2011 |

    POZ Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, District of Columbia

    When health care funding was cut in the United States, HIV clinics were hit harder than some other areas, impacting not just the medicine, but also the staff in these facilities. The Whitman-Walker Clinic in the District of Columbia, however, found a way to combat these changes by broadening the range of people they were caring for and mimicking service providers that were qualified as federally qualified health centers.

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  • Salvaging Medical Cast-Offs to Save Lives

    August 04, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Benin, Cotonou, Littoral

    Many organizations are building distribution systems to get surplus items in one place to those who need them in another. For example, an organization in Brooklyn collects the surplus medical equipment from United States hospitals and ships it to hospitals in poor countries.

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  • Doctor Hotspot

    August 03, 2011 |

    PBS Frontline |

    Broadcast TV Programs |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Camden, New Jersey

    The highest hospital costs come from preventable emergency room visits. A doctor in Camden developed a home visit program which gives better and cheaper care.

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  • Slashing the Price of Health With Common Sense

    August 02, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro

    Organizations are mobilizing volunteers in hospitals to connect low-income families with human services which address social factors like poor housing, nutrition, etc. so patients are able to work and thus afford healthier lives.

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  • Treating the Cause, Not the Illness

    July 28, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    The United States now has a variety of federally-supported nutrition programs, but the health care system remains disconnected from the social determinants of health. Many doctors simply lack the resources to provide the comprehensive care proven to have greater impact on health than strictly medical treatment. A group called Health Leads is training young volunteers to treat the social factors, like poor nutrition and housing needs.

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  • A Trade Barrier to Defeating AIDS

    July 26, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: India

    One-pill-a-day generic AIDS drugs for poor countries are hard to make because each ingredient is patented by a different pharmaceutical company. The Patent Pool provides a way for companies to donate their intellectual property safely.

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  • Sharing Patents to Wipe Out AIDS

    July 21, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, San Mateo, California

    Once-a-day generic AIDS drugs for poor countries are hard to make because each ingredient is patented by a different pharmaceutical company. The Patent Pool provides a way for companies to donate their intellectual property safely.

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  • Nearing 2-week mark, Tahrir sit-in becomes Tahrir City

    July 20, 2011 |

    Egypt Independent |

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    Response Location: Egypt, Cairo

    Frustrated citizens settled in Tahrir Square, in downtown Cairo, and set up a tent city with a school, bookstore, radio station, open-air restaurants, and a cinema. The sit-in is in protest of the military rulers' use of military trials for civilians and failure to hold trials for corrupt former officials, among other demands for substantive change. Some successes of the settlement include a school for street children and a radio station that has reached over 300,000 listeners. The settlement also faces similar problems of other societies, such as crime, class conflict, and human rights violations.

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  • Trusting Families to Help Themselves

    July 19, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    To give support to struggling families without prescribing solutions requires respect and discipline. The Family Independence Initiative (F.I.I.) encourages low-income families to define their own goals and work towards them in mutual support groups, while carefully documenting their successes.

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  • Out of Poverty, Family-Style

    July 14, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    A non-traditional program called the Family Independence Initiative (F.I.I.), uses a radically different approach from the traditional American social service model to empower entire families alleviate themselves from poverty. The results in multiple states thus far have been so striking, that this model of self-sufficiency may be able to have a significant impact reducing poverty nationwide.

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