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  • In Cameroon, Poor People With Severe Albinism-related Skin Disorders Get Free Treatment

    Violet Ikong

    June 28, 2022 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Cameroon, Bertoua

    Albicare for Cameroon works to fight cancer and provide palliative care to cancer patients and their families. The organization offers free skin cancer treatment, and operations, as well as educational services and consultations to those with albinism. Since its launch in 2020, Albicare has reached about 300 people living with albinism and performed 30 skin cancer operations.

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  • Boat Clinics Are Taking Healthcare To The Remote And Inaccessible Islands Of Sundarbans

    Aastha Ahuja

    June 15, 2022 |

    NDTV (New Delhi TV) |

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    Response Location: India, New Delhi

    Boat clinics provide free mobile health care to those living in remote islands who typically struggle to access medical care. The clinics provide access to medicine, minor surgeries and testing and even set up camps off the boat in school buildings to make it easier for elderly locals to access care.

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  • Tackling the supply side of the EMS shortage

    Alex Sakariassen

    May 18, 2022 |

    Montana Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Missoula, Montana

    To combat the EMS shortage exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, a collaboration between a college and emergency services department is working to train paramedics by providing students access to high-end facilities, instructors, and experiences. Similar programs have popped up around the country, specifically in rural areas where the EMS shortage is even more apparent.

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  • Forth Hope: La esperanza navega por el río Ucayali

    Ramiro Escobar La Cruz

    May 17, 2022 |

    El País |

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    Response Location: Peru

    En el fondo de la Amazonía peruana donde no llegan fácilmente los médicos, el barco Forth Hope lleva curación, alivio, vacunas y prevención. Desde el año 2002, ha visitado y ayudado a millones de personas con apoyo médico, odontólogo, psicólogo y obstétrica.

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  • Nigerian Medical Students' Association: Active Citizenship for Health Improving Malaria Prevention and Treatment Awareness

    Chibuike Alagboso

    April 11, 2022 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    Different chapters of the Nigerian Medical Students’ Association came together to form the National Malaria Elimination and Sensitisation Project or NMESP in 2021 wherein 433 of their members volunteered to carry out outreach work. They collaborated with local churches, youth groups, and the local health centers to reach the community. In 46 days, they had spread malaria awareness in about 38 communities and tested 523 people with Rapid Diagnostic Test kits. They also prescribed medications, and distributed free repellents and insecticide-treated mosquito nets.

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  • Small town, big numbers

    Rachel Sun

    April 07, 2022 |

    The Lewiston Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Elk River, Idaho

    The Clearwater Canyon Pharmacy helped organize an easily accessible COVID-19 vaccine clinic in a rural, elderly town, increasing its vaccine status to 75%, an unprecedented number in the area.

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  • To save lives, midwives mix Mayan heritage with Western medicine

    Megan Janetsky

    March 29, 2022 |

    National Geographic |

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    Response Location: Guatemala

    Indigenous midwives in rural areas of Guatemala help pregnant women with limited access to healthcare give birth in an effort to prevent maternal and infant deaths.

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  • Saving mothers and babies is a thankless task

    Sanket Jain

    March 29, 2022 |

    New Frame |

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    Response Location: India

    Female community health workers, or Ashas, are the link between the healthcare system and pregnant women in rural areas of India. Among many other tasks, Ashas provide maternal healthcare education, look after pregnant woman, and refer women at risk to hospitals with better facilities to give birth.

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  • Anti-vax preachers and the race to vaccinate South Sudan

    Seyi Rhodes

    March 27, 2022 |

    Unreported World |

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    Response Location: South Sudan

    Crown Agents is an international development organization working to get people vaccinated against COVID-19, despite vaccine shortages and misinformation from anti-vaxxers.

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  • On Kashmir's border, health workers fight Covid vaccine battles

    Aliya Bashir

    March 17, 2022 |

    The Evening Standard |

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    Response Location: India, Kashmir

    In an effort to fight misinformation and vaccine hesitancy, teams of healthcare professionals travel door-to-door in rural communities where vaccination rates are low and COVID cases are high.

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