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  • How Lithuania More Than Halved Its Suicide Rate

    November 06, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Lithuania, Vilnius

    Over the past several years, Lithuania has implemented a comprehensive national strategy to combat high suicide rates by shifting from a medicalized approach to community-based support. One such strategy is Sidabrinė Linija, or Silver Line, a nonprofit offering free support to isolated seniors by matching them with a “befriender” who shares some of their interests. Since its inception, Silver Line has befriended 6,000 seniors. As a result of combined efforts from multiple initiatives, Lithuania’s suicide rate has dropped from 44 per 100,000 residents in 2004 to 19.5 per 100,000 today.

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  • Diabetes care on wheels brings help to people who need it most

    November 01, 2025 |

    CBC |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Canada, Calgary, Alberta

    A mobile diabetes clinic in Calgary brings comprehensive healthcare directly to people experiencing homelessness or low income at community health centers. The team provides services including foot care, retinal scans, blood and urine screening with immediate results, dietary counseling, and connections to housing and mental health programs. The "one-stop-shop" model eliminates the need for patients to travel to multiple appointments, ensuring they get the care they need.

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  • Bridging Gaps in Women's Health: Niger State's Push for Better Access to Family Planning

    October 07, 2025 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Niger

    The Niger State Health Care Fund offers a voucher program that helps cover the cost of antenatal care and family planning services for women in rural areas and IDP camps. The voucher scheme, alongside community engagement programs and technological resources, has improved access to contraceptives and reproductive health services, but the state’s rate of contraceptive prevalence is still below the national average.

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  • Family Planning Strengthens Agency for Women, Youth in Zimbabwe

    October 07, 2025 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Zimbabwe

    The Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council focuses on improving maternal health outcomes by providing reproductive health and family planning resources, including contraception and educational counseling, at clinics, local health facilities, and community organizations. Since 2010, the country’s maternal mortality rate has fallen and the rate of married women using modern contraceptives has reached 69%.

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  • Nigeria's Self-Care Policy Expands Women's Reproductive Choices

    October 07, 2025 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Nasarawa

    Thanks to Nigeria’s Self-Care Policy, residents can access free injectable contraceptives that can be administered without the support of health workers. Patients learn how to use the injectable during their first appointment at a health center and are then able to take up to a year of doses with them to administer independently each month at home. Since 2014, when the self-injectables were first introduced, the country’s rate of contraceptive prevalence has risen from 4% to 15%.

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  • How Women in Adamawa Are Rebuilding Trust in Family Planning

    October 07, 2025 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Gombi, Adamawa

    Adamawa State Primary Health Care Development Agency partnered with The Challenge Initiative to train female community mobilizers and service providers across nine local government areas to provide family planning care. The providers use a trust-building approach, conducting house calls and leveraging social gatherings to gradually introduce family planning concepts. Since the group began, family planning uptake has surged from about 20% to 74%.

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  • Youth and adolescent corners transform lives in Otuke, but donor exit sparks fears for the future

    October 05, 2025 |

    tndNews |

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    Response Location: Uganda, Otuke

    Health centers like Barjobi Health Center III offer youth and teens judgment and stigma-free sexual and reproductive healthcare services, as well as opportunities to connect with each other over games and activities. However, these youth-centric health centers are facing closures and significant budget cuts as the biggest funding provider, USAID, has phased out.

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  • Family Planning Expands Women's Choices in Zimbabwe

    October 05, 2025 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Zimbabwe

    The Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council implemented a comprehensive national family planning program that offers integrated reproductive health services delivered through multiple channels including local clinics, mobile outreach units, community health workers, and youth-friendly centers. The program provides access to contraceptives, counseling, and peer education to address maternal mortality and unplanned pregnancy rates. Over the past decade, maternal mortality has dropped by 78%, and unintended pregnancies have also significantly decreased.

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  • Increasing Access: ASHIA Cracks the Code on Health Insurance for Anambra's Informal Sector

    August 11, 2025 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Anambra

    The Anambra State Health Insurance Agency (ASHIA) extends health coverage to Nigeria's hard-to-reach groups by embedding insurance premiums into weekly transport worker fees and partnering with cooperatives and trade unions for group enrollment. It also offers an “Adoption Model" that allows donors to sponsor vulnerable residents' coverage. With 235,000 active enrollees, ASHIA has dramatically reduced out-of-pocket healthcare spending from 92.1% to just 10% for those enrolled and has also significantly increased the number of people who seek coverage.

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  • Local Volunteers Lead the Way in Closing Taraba's Maternal Healthcare Gap

    July 15, 2025 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Sardauna, Taraba State

    Women volunteers with PHC Kara are going into the community to share important healthcare information with pregnant women, in an effort to improve maternal and infant mortality rates and health outcomes. The group has also received support and recognition from UNICEF’S Mama2Mama healthcare initiative and Rural Health Mission Nigeria, providing them with clean birth kits and other supplies to distribute to women.

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