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  • India: Sanitation for Women

    March 02, 2016 |

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    Response Location: India

    Improving sanitation isn’t just a matter of building more toilets; it’s also about education and specific solutions that help women and the poor gain access to safe, clean, and convenient facilities. This is a huge topic in India, where local projects and top-down efforts to improve sanitation have mixed results.

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  • Michigan, USA: Preventing Suicide

    February 24, 2016 |

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    Response Location: United States, Michigan

    To reduce the suicide rate, screen every patient for risk factors and increase universal access to mental health services. When Henry Ford Group implemented this policy throughout its network of hospitals, the suicide rate fell 80 percent. Another effort to increase access to mental health services in the state is the Detroit Recovery Project, a nonprofit offering drug rehabilitation support.

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  • Portugal: Drug Decriminalisation

    February 17, 2016 |

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    Response Location: Portugal

    By decriminalizing drug possession, Portugal removed a barrier preventing addicts from reaching out for help. The country treats drug use as a public health concern, offering free rehabilitation services and a needle exchange program. Although social taboos persist, drug-related deaths and HIV infection rates are at all-time lows.

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  • Costa Rica - Green Energy

    February 14, 2016 |

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    Response Location: Costa Rica

    Costa Rica has pioneered a methodology that has resulted in getting most of its electricity from hydroelectric plants, reversing deforestation through implementing financial incentives and achieving a 99 percent fossil-fuel free year. This progressive approach has put the country in the running to become the first carbon-neutral country by 2021.

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  • After the floods: York and Nijmegen - a tale of two cities

    February 09, 2016 |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, York

    After record-breaking rainfall and flooding, the city of York was at a loss for relief and reconstruction ideas. They turned to the Dutch city of Nijmegen, which had experienced similar flooding and found a solution in building a relief channel.

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  • Estonia: Digital Society

    February 03, 2016 |

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    Response Location: Estonia

    Government services are easily accessible in Estonia in part because everything is online. A digital signature carries the same weight as a physical signature, and data is shared between offices allowing forms such as tax returns to be pre-filled for citizens. The country leapfrogged the rest of the world, investing in digital literacy and infrastructure in an effort to serve its small, spread-out population.

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  • Prevention better than cure in Cuban healthcare system

    December 13, 2015 |

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    Response Location: Cuba

    As a person’s disease advances their health care needs become more expensive. The Cuban health care system keeps costs down and patients healthy through compulsory healthy checks and emphasis on prevention.

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  • Free health care for unauthorised immigrants in LA

    October 23, 2015 |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Los Angeles has a new model for affordable health care aimed at the 400,000 immigrants in the area without legal status or insurance. But not everyone agrees taxpayer money should fund the program.

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  • Syria's next generation

    March 12, 2015 |

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    Response Location: Syria, Damascus

    The refugee crisis in Syria is one of modern society's greatest diasporas. Syria's refugee children are not a lost generation, but the country's next generation, according to volunteers who want to prepare them for the future.

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  • Ebola outbreak: How Nigeria is beating the killer virus

    October 16, 2014 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    A nightmare scenario of Ebola raging unchecked among millions of slum-dwellers in Africa's largest city has given way to a rare example of a victory over the virus.

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