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  • Providing youth-friendly health services key in fighting teenage pregnancies

    April 03, 2018 |

    New Vision |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Uganda, Iganga, Iganga District

    Reproductive Health Uganda (RHU) Clinic is taking a youth centered approach towards teaching reproductive health. Their methods, which include having youth days, hiring youth peer counselors, and providing private rooms for youth to discuss their sexual health, allow them to reach teenagers. “As a result, their uptake of contraception has increased.”

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  • Exchange of Ideas: Needle Exchanges Grow To Meet Threats From Opioid Crisis

    March 30, 2018 |

    Ohio Valley ReSource |

    Multi-Media |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Kentucky

    Sharing stories about addiction brings stakeholders together. With the cost of prevention being much lower than the cost of treating outbreaks disease and overdoses, advocates for needle exchanges have sought to open more centers in Kentucky. Despite initial opposition from the Bourbon County community, groups like the Recovery Warriors have succeeded, by holding meetings and sharing experiences, to ultimately pass a motion to open the county’s first needle exchange.

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  • These Moroccans are turning foggy days into a solution to their water crisis

    March 29, 2018 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: Morocco

    Water was scarce in the Moroccan Ait Baamrane tribal region, which meant women and children often had to travel great distances to fetch water from wells. A new technology that harvests water from fog, however, has changed their way of life by generating enough clean drinking water for the entire region.

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  • Meet the Muslim Women Fighting for Sex Ed in Their Communities

    March 27, 2018 |

    Teen Vogue |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    The organization HEART Women & Girls was founded by Muslim women to provide a means for young women to receive culturally sensitive sex education, a safe space to discuss issues of sexuality and sexual violence, and to train staff of community centers, mosques, and other appropriate people to better handle issues of sexuality.

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  • Anacostia Rising: What's Next For D.C.'s 'Forgotten' River

    March 26, 2018 |

    American University Radio (WAMU) |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    The Anacostia, which has long been one of the most polluted rivers in the country, has been given a new lease on life, thanks to cleanup efforts and a recent sewer upgrade in D.C. Since water quality has improved, there's been renewed interest in waterfront recreation and development. Now local groups are working to mitigate displacement from gentrification, with some success.

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  • Menstrual cups are helping Nepal's girls avoid the deadly Chhaupadi ritual

    March 10, 2018 |

    ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Nepal

    In Nepal, Chhaupadi is a ritual in which menstruating women are banished to small sheds for the duration of their period. Women are forced to stay outdoors, and potentially face extreme weather conditions. The practice has been linked to a string of deaths, but a menstrual cup is helping women in the area avoid the ritual.

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  • To feed elders, traditional foods take untraditional route

    February 28, 2018 |

    Alaska Public Media |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Kotzebue, Alaska

    Elders in Kotzebue, Alaska missed traditional foods like elk, caribou, and whale when they transitioned into assisted living, so a group formed to find a way through federal red tape. Locals, environmental health agents, and government officials sat down to make sure the community practices were up to federal standard.

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  • For Philly safe injection sites to be inclusive, start by allowing crack

    February 20, 2018 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Comprehensive User Engagement Sites (CUES) are currently primarily open to opiate addicts and are equipped to deal with opioid related overdoses and safe administration of the drugs. Some sites are now beginning to distribute materials for safe crack/cocaine use including clean pipes, alcohol swabs, lip balms, and condoms to promote safe sex.

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  • My Perfect Country: Nepal

    February 11, 2018 |

    BBC |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Nepal

    In Nepal, a revolutionary volunteer program called the “Female Community Health Volunteers” has led the country to drastically decline the number of women that die giving childbirth. Over 50,000 volunteers look after pregnant women and inform them of how to take care of themselves. “Between 1991 and 2011, it has seen an 80% decline in the number of women dying in pregnancy, during labour and after childbirth.”

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  • What Teenagers Are Learning From Online Porn

    February 07, 2018 |

    The New York Times Magazine |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Teenagers consume a large amount of pornographic media at the same time that they are developing ideas about their sexual identity and preferences. A “porn literacy” class offered to Boston high school students helps them to better understand the dynamics of what they are seeing and avoid the growth of potential harmful ideas about body image, consent, and expectations.

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