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  • Keeping Artificial Limbs Low-Cost, and High-Quality

    June 28, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Honduras

    A prosthetist from Texas visiting Jaipur Limb workshops in Honduras saw problems with their low-cost prosthetics - the issue wasn't the design of the leg, but the technicians at the Honduras workshops were people completely new to prosthetics who were given just eight weeks of training. Thanks to his research, Jaipur established a research and development unit to improve the limb.

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  • The Rewards of Renewal

    June 16, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

    Poor neighborhoods in the United States lack quality play spaces for children, also known as play deserts. An organization is enabling communities across the nation to build their own playground.

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  • The Health Coach You Know

    March 04, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    It's unusual for health programs to find it financially beneficial to send a home visitor regularly to help patients. But medical programs in various parts of the United States are experimenting with using peer groups to help people stick to their treatment plans, and it is working.

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  • A Housecall to Help With Doctor's Orders

    February 28, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The health problems of millions of Americans are directly related to patients' failure to follow doctors’ orders. Community health workers are increasingly successful in New York and other American cities – not to substitute for doctors, but to help patients stick to their treatment plans.

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  • What Makes Community Health Care Work?

    February 18, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: India, Halgaon, Maharashtra

    The second of two columns on how ordinary women trained to become their village doctors are making rural villages much healthier. Financial incentives, supporting workers, and encouraging cooperation from governments are just some of the strategies being implemented.

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  • Villages Without Doctors

    February 14, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: India, Halgaon, Maharashtra

    Many health professionals choose to not live in poor, rural areas that lack access to healthcare. The Society for Education, Action, and Research in Community Health, and the Comprehensive Rural Health Project are training local women in rural parts of India to fill this gap. These women visit families in their community and offer services like education on breastfeeding to new mothers and vaccinations to children.

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  • A Light in India

    January 10, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: India, New Delhi, Delhi

    Access to electricity in India takes a huge economic, educational, and health-related toll. A small company called Husk Power Systems has created an innovative system that is turning rice husks into electricity and illuminating India’s poorest state.

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  • Harnessing the Wind with Scrap

    May 08, 2009 |

    Science in Society |

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    Response Location: Malawi, Mastala, Kusungu District

    A bright young man named William took it upon himself to bring electricity to his small, rural village in Malawi, despite having few resources at his disposal. William invented a windmill using recycled materials, and successfully generated power for his home. His incredible ingenuity attracted international attention, inspiring others as far away as Portsmouth University to design windmills that are financially and physically accessible for the world's rural poor living off the grid.

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  • Unlikely Heroes: Goats Rescue N.Y. Bog Turtles

    June 24, 2008 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    Invasive weeds are ruining the habitat of New York's wild bog turtles. In Hudson River Valley, domestic goats and cows are being used to save bog turtles by grazing on this foreign weed. So far, the plan seems to be working as the turtles have shown signs of not just returning but also laying eggs in the area.

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