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  • Door-to-door campaign helps Guadalupe turn the tide against COVID

    January 05, 2022 |

    Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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    Response Location: United States, Guadalupe, Arizona

    After becoming a COVID-19 hotspot, Guadalupe built partnerships and built trust among community members to effectively track cases, dispel misinformation, and increase vaccinations. The Town Council partnered with Pascua Yaqui tribal leaders, the broader Maricopa County, Native Health, and a COVID-19 response team composed of faculty, staff, and students at Arizona State University to lower infection rates. A combination of at-home testing, contact tracing and, eventually, vaccination events helped, as did the use of promotoras – community health workers who talk with residents to help ease anxiety.

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  • Alleviating the plights of diabetes patients with free drugs and medical checks

    January 02, 2022 |

    Pulse Nigeria |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    Feed The Vulnerable Families Foundation works provides free medicine, checkups, and help with medical bills to people living with diabetes. The organization collaborates with health centers across 32 states to identify people who would benefit from services and reaches medical volunteers through its social media platforms. During outreach events, people are tested for diabetes, given free medications and education materials about living with the disease, and more serious cases are referred to local hospitals for urgent care.

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  • He Almost Died From Hypertension; Now He Helps Others Live Free Of The Disease

    December 20, 2021 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Oyo State

    Rays of Hope Support Initiative or ROHSI conducts outreach in rural parts of Nigeria to educate people about hypertension and diabetes. A group of volunteers, including medical professionals, provides free screenings, medical advice, and free medications to people with hypertension and diabetes at their biannual community outreaches.

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  • REACH: Taking Quality Healthcare to Communities in Kano State

    November 01, 2021 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

    REACH (“Reaching Everyone with Accessible Community Health”) provides preventive and curative healthcare through a community-based health insurance initiative that offers different packages of care. Community members pay a monthly fee for the insurance, which gives them access to treatment for all ailments including prescription medicines. About 11,000 people are served locally by 22 community health workers but are referred to health clinics and hospitals for more serious issues. Partnerships with pharmaceutical companies and the nonprofit arm of a local clinic helps make treatment costs affordable.

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  • North Carolina's Latino residents are more vaccinated than the non-hispanic population

    November 01, 2021 |

    North Carolina Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    Hispanic residents in North Carolina went from having one of the lowest vaccination rates to one of the highest. The health department ran bilingual ads on a variety of media types, including social media and held virtual town halls and Facebook Live events. They also paid community health workers in each county to use their existing relationships with Latino residents and improve access to information about the vaccine and to the vaccine itself. Outreach from trusted ambassadors has proven more effective among communities that have deep mistrust of institutionalized structures.

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  • ‘I understand your concern': Sedgwick County's COVID Ambassador program beats back vaccine hesitancy

    October 21, 2021 |

    The Wichita Beacon |

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    Response Location: United States, Sedgwick County, Kansas

    The COVID Ambassador program trains people to listen, be empathetic, and acknowledge people’s COVID-19 vaccine concerns. Ambassadors’ training includes substantial practice talking to people who are resistant to getting vaccinated and they receive ongoing support at bi-monthly meetings, which has increased their confidence and led to more conversations with community members hesitant to get vaccinated. Like other community health worker programs, the ambassador program’s ability to be successful relies on the idea that people trust information from their peers more than from the government.

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  • Rural Health Mission Nigeria: Providing Lifesaving Care to Mothers and Babies in Plateau State

    October 18, 2021 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Wase Local Government Area, Plateau State

    The Lifesaving Intervention Project offers postnatal services to mothers and newborns via community health workers who are trained in maternal and child health. After giving birth, the women receive follow-up care over the phone and through home visits and are referred to health facilities when additional care is needed. The support services have increased the percent of women getting post-natal care and have improved postpartum mental health. The health workers also provide information about the health benefits of exclusive breastfeeding, delivering in facilities, and birth control to space out children.

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  • Beating HIV through family, mentorship

    October 12, 2021 |

    Nation Africa |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Homa Bay

    Pama Care is an initiative that coordinates HIV care within a family to address barriers to adherence to achieve viral suppression in children and adults. All HIV positive family members are put on the same medication schedule, which improves adherence, and given clinic appointments on the same day, which provides a better picture of family barriers and improves guidance and counseling. The government, backed financially by private companies, also pays a monthly stipend to patients who reach out to those having a hard time accepting their HIV status. This model has been successful across the country.

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  • Nigeria's quest to help 2.6 million sickle cell patients

    September 19, 2021 |

    Daily Trust |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    Doctors and nurses with the Sickle Cell Foundation Nigeria provide free specialized care to over 5,000 people at a local hospital. An annual CT scan monitors patients' risk of stroke, with those who are high-risk getting one every three months. The CT scans are provided at a highly subsidized cost because the machine was donated to the hospital. Patients with leg ulcers, a common ailment, are treated three times a week and given free supplies to clean wounds at home. The foundation does outreach to rural areas, where they have provided education, genetic counseling, and medical services to over 8,000 people.

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  • Rwanda Saving Mothers' Lives With An SMS

    September 14, 2021 |

    Rwanda Dispatch |

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    Response Location: Rwanda

    The RapidSMS program provides mobile phones to connect pregnant women, community health workers (CHWs), ambulances, and hospitals. CHWs enter data into phones to track all pregnant women, monitor prenatal care, and identify women at risk of complications. The free platform also allows pregnant women to send a text message to their CHW, who can alert an ambulance to be dispatched to even the most remote regions and give hospitals advanced notice of the women’s arrival. The system has been so effective in improving health outcomes that the government is looking to use it for other medical issues like malaria.

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