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  • With compassionate outreach, a city cuts its drug overdose rate in half

    May 21, 2018 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Huntington, West Virginia

    In Huntington, West Virginia, an team modeled off the highly successful Quick Response Team outside of Cincinnati is showing similar results in cutting down deaths caused by addiction. The Quick Response Team ensures that every overdose survivor receives a follow-up visit within 72 hours, a strategy that is also helping to build personal relationships and help them find more services.

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  • Opioid Crisis Compels New York to Look North for Answers

    May 21, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Canada, Toronto, Ontario

    Supervised injection sites in Canada have prevented hundreds of heroin overdose deaths. Now, New York City is looking to follow Canada's lead with a city-wide initiative to establish safe injection sites. While the Trump Administration is not in support of such sites, experts believe that it is unlikely that the federal government would interfere with a site if a city is in support of it.

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  • UO's science literacy program cultivates scientific curiosity

    May 20, 2018 |

    Daily Emerald |

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    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    Since 2010, the University of Oregon Science Literacy Program has provided professors and graduate students with ideas about effective and engaging active learning teaching models in order to improve science literacy among non-science majors. Interested instructors meet weekly to discuss literature and research about teaching methods. So far, over 21,000 undergraduates have taken a course designed through this program.

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  • Sweet fruits of value addition

    May 19, 2018 |

    Nation Africa |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Runyenjes, Nairobi

    The Karurumo Self-Help Group in Kenya initially started as a way to avoid agriculture exploitation. However, it has now evolved into a way to reduce post-harvest waste through the implementation of value addition and produce processing.

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  • New Hampshire syringe programs: 'Meeting people where they're at'

    May 19, 2018 |

    New Hampshire Union Leader |

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    Response Location: United States, Rochester, New Hampshire

    Hand Up Health Services is a syringe services program that provides clean needles to addicts, also known as “needles exchange” programs. The program is only one of two in New Hampshire. While there's a lot of stigma behind these types of programs, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions shows that “ people who inject drugs are five times more likely to enter treatment if they connect with an SSP.”

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  • Saving Africa's wildlife

    May 18, 2018 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: Malawi

    Africa's wildlife have made headlines time and time again, as species find their way closer to extinction. There are some pockets of the continent, however that have provide refuge for species and allowed them to not just populate, but thrive. Recognizing this, a group known as African Parks found a way to use these growing populations to repopulate other areas of the continent by transporting animals to newly protected areas.

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  • Switzerland's new algorithm could get up to 30% more refugees into work

    May 18, 2018 |

    Apolitical |

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    Response Location: Switzerland, Bern

    Switzerland will soon be piloting a new algorithm to help refugees find jobs. The algorithm uses "machine learning to match geographic employment outcomes with refugees’ personal characteristics, such as gender, age and nationality." Researchers found that using the algorithm would have helped 41% more refugees to be employed between 2011 and 2016, but "real world" impact is yet to be measured. However, there are concerns about transparency and fairness.

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  • Are Handicrafts Intellectual Property? These Guatemalan Women Think So.

    May 18, 2018 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Response Location: Guatemala

    The expansion of intellectual property laws to cover ancestral knowledge can help protect indigenous people from economic exploitation. Indigenous women in Guatemala are working to pass a law similar to one used in Australia and South Africa to protect the use of textile designs.

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  • Australia confiscated 650,000 guns. Murders and suicides plummeted.

    May 18, 2018 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: Australia

    After passing the National Firearms Agreement in 1996, Australia saw a striking decline in suicide and homicide raters. The agreement – a result of a mass shooting – included a ban on certain kinds of guns, a mandatory buyback on those guns that had been deemed illegal, as well as amnesty for those who illegally possessed firearms to turn them in. In the years leading up to the agreement, the country witnessed 13 mass shootings; since then, Australia has seen only one.

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  • Displaced Sri Lankans defy military to reclaim homeland

    May 18, 2018 |

    Al Jazeera |

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    Response Location: Sri Lanka, Iranaitheevu

    26 years after being displaced from their land, hundreds of Tamil civilians orchestrated a plan that defied the Sri Lankan navy to return to their homeland. “Over 100 community members are now living on the island. Other plans to arrive in the coming months.”

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