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  • Just two visits a year: Longer ARV scripts, shorter clinic lines

    July 28, 2025 |

    Bhekisisa |

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    Response Location: South Africa, Cape Town

    South Africa's implementation of 6MMD (six multi-month dispensing) allows stable HIV patients to collect their antiretroviral medications only twice a year instead of monthly. The program aims to reduce clinic congestion and improve patient retention and consistent medication use.

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  • King County bet big on remaking its mental health system. Is it working?

    July 27, 2025 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, King County, Washington

    King County, Washington, is building an alternative mental health care system to avoid escalating unnecessary 911 calls and including law enforcement when it’s not necessarily needed. The County created a mental health-focused response team in collaboration with the 988 suicide and crisis lifeline to divert calls that don’t pose a safety risk and help de-escalate situations. The communications center that fields most of the calls says they get about 20 transfers to the 988 line each month.

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  • Music and Mental Health

    July 25, 2025 |

    Little News Ears |

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    Response Location: United States, Athens, Georgia

    Nuci’s Space aims to prevent suicide by providing a safe space for people of all ages, particularly youth, to connect and play music. They also offer affordable practice spaces and mental and physical health care services for participants, including affordable counseling.

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  • Americans haven't saved for retirement. States are creating automatic savings plans.

    July 23, 2025 |

    Stateline |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    To help more private-sector employees save for retirement—and hopefully reduce future needs for public safety net programs—more states are launching automatic IRA programs that enroll employees who don’t have access to a retirement plan through their employer. In Colorado, more than 70,000 workers have been enrolled so far.

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  • Connecticut Serves 1.75 Million Free Summer Meals As Federal Cuts Hit School Nutrition

    July 18, 2025 |

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    Response Location: United States, Connecticut

    The Sun Meals Program distributes free breakfast and lunch to Connecticut children in the summer, with no registration or identification required. The program has handed out more than 1.75 million meals since June, but federal funding that helps support the distribution is being eliminated, leaving the state to shore up the gaps.

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  • Hard up for students, more colleges are offering college credit for life experience, or 'prior learning'

    July 10, 2025 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

    Some colleges and universities, such as the Community College of Allegheny County, are expanding opportunities for students to earn academic credit for previous work and life experience, allowing them to bypass some courses and requirements covering skills they've already learned on the job. According to one study, these programs can result in significant tuition savings and help students cut down on the time it takes to finish a degree.

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  • How German Cities Are Rethinking Women's Safety — With Taxis

    July 10, 2025 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: Germany

    Some German cities have created voucher programs that subsidize the cost of taking a taxi for women who feel unsafe walking or using public transit at night. In Cologne, 1,500 vouchers were used within days of their release, and Munich has more than tripled the number of vouchers it provides due to demand.

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  • How local homelessness advocacy groups are providing medical care without boundaries

    July 09, 2025 |

    StreetWise |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Street medicine is breaking down barriers to healthcare access that unhoused individuals face. It brings healthcare directly to them, rather than expecting them to navigate the system on their own. This type of care emerged in Pittsburgh in 1992 and has since created a national network of 85 U.S. cities, 15 countries and five continents. Chicago Street Medicine, specifically, serves about 4,000 patients a year, with the help of its 600 volunteers.

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  • Beneath the blazing sun, Black Phoenix sows community

    July 01, 2025 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    In Phoenix's historically Black neighborhoods, community organizations have transformed vacant, heat-trapping lots into thriving urban farms. One initiative, Spaces of Opportunity, converted a 19-acre abandoned site into a community farm with 250 garden plots available. Spaces of Opportunity serves over 1,000 residents each month, and other community farming initiatives also help in providing food and jobs for participants, many of whom are formerly incarcerated or unhoused.

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  • How Anambra Is Transforming Primary Healthcare Through Telemedicine

    June 26, 2025 |

    Radio Nigeria |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Anambra

    Anambra State’s telemedicine program is closing the healthcare access gap in rural communities, making universal health coverage more possible. The program began in 2022 and has since hired and trained 42 doctors in providing remote healthcare. As more people use the telemedicine program, public trust in primary healthcare across the region is increasing.

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