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  • The warning labels that could be coming for your crisps

    July 31, 2025 |

    Bhekisisa |

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    Response Location: Chile

    In 2016, Chile implemented warning labels on food packaging to alert consumers when a product was high in sugar, salt, saturated fat or artificial sweeteners as a way to warn and deter them from purchasing unhealthy foods. After implementing these labels, locals bought less unhealthy products, and manufacturers began using less unhealthy ingredients, inspiring other countries, like South Africa, to implement similar practices.

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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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  • Garantizar el agua no es sencillo, pero las ASADAs muestran que es posible

    July 04, 2025 |

    El Colectivo 506 |

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    Response Location: Costa Rica

    Las ASADAs (Asociaciones Administradoras de los Sistemas de Acueductos y Alcantarillados Sanitarios) son organizaciones comunitarias sin fines de lucro que administran sistemas de agua potable para sus comunidades, sirviendo al 33% de la población costarricense a través del compromiso voluntario y la gestión local del recurso hídrico.

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  • Student group banned by DePaul continues to run covert birth control delivery service

    July 03, 2025 |

    WBEZ |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    After DePaul University revoked a student organization’s status and ability to distribute sexual health materials on campus, the group, known as the “Womb Service,” began to provide free materials such as condoms, emergency contraception, and pregnancy tests at designated locations on public property near the university. Any student can confidentially request a delivery using an online form, and the group says it gets as many as 25 orders per week.

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  • Women are leading menstrual dialogue in Nepal – and in the process, challenging the status quo

    July 02, 2025 |

    Missing Perspectives |

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    Response Location: Nepal

    be artsy's Rato Baltin project uses culturally relevant education, menstrual kit distribution, and engages religious leaders to challenge discriminatory practices against those who menstruate. Since launching in 2017, the group has reached 80,000 people and distributed over 5,500 menstrual cups, while simultaneously helping shift perspectives around menstruating.

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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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  • Nevada tribe is bridging the healthcare gap with a mobile clinic that serves 2,000 tribal patients

    June 25, 2025 |

    KUNR |

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    Response Location: Paiute Tribe, United States, Lovelock, Nevada

    The Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe’s mobile health clinic makes healthcare more accessible to those in a region where traveling to hospitals or doctor offices is often a challenge. Funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the mobile clinic has served around 2,000 patients, averaging about 20 each month.

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  • One Community Took a Radical Approach to Fighting Addiction. It's Working.

    June 15, 2025 |

    Wall Street Journal |

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    Response Location: United States, Chesterfield, Virginia

    Chesterfield County, Virginia implemented a multi-faceted response to the opioid crisis, including a jail-based recovery program, Helping Addicts Recover Progressively (HARP), that brings people in recovery to the local jail to talk about addiction and treatment resources. Combined with other efforts, overdose deaths have dropped by half in a single year, and around 4,000 people have participated in HARP.

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  • In southeast Kansas, housing is treated as health care, and people are getting off the streets

    May 19, 2025 |

    Kansas Reflector |

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    Response Location: United States, Pittsburg, Kansas

    The Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas and its subsidiary Building Health act as safety nets for uninsured people experiencing homelessness by expanding the definition of healthcare to also include housing, serving about 85,000 people a year. By providing wraparound care and services from help finding housing to legal assistance and education, the groups’ combined efforts helped shrink the rate of uninsured, unhoused people from 16% in 2020 to about 12% now.

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  • The Huddle brings community members together to fight toward food security on campus

    May 16, 2025 |

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    Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

    The Monarch Food Pantry and The Huddle help combat food insecurity by ensuring college students have consistent access to food. About 1,100 to 1,900 people come to the pantry each month, and it’s available 24/7 to anyone with a university ID.

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