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  • Meet the all-female ‘disease detectives' revitalising their nation's health

    Teams of Shasthya Shebikas, female community volunteers, are spread across the country providing door-to-door healthcare services to those in need who often struggle to access care. This community healthcare system, in partnership with the local government and other area NGOs, provides free or low-cost care to about 80 million people each year and has seen dramatic health improvements in terms of infant and maternal mortality and vaccination rates.

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  • Trabajadores comunitarios persuaden a inmigrantes mayores de tener cobertura de salud

    Después de la amplificación del programa de Medicaid en California, algunos condados han contratado a un pequeño ejército de trabajadores comunitarios multilingües y educadores de salud para inscribir a tantos adultos mayores inmigrantes como sea posible. Estos trabajadores visitan centros para personas mayores, iglesias, clases de inglés, oficinas de inmigración, mercados y eventos comunitarios, con la esperanza de encontrar a personas que no estén enteradas de su nueva elegibilidad.

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  • In southern Arizona, an entire K-8 school tackles dust, COVID-19 with DIY air purifiers

    With help from Arizona State University, Red Rock Elementary school built DIY air-filtering devices called Corsi-Rosenthal Boxes for each classroom. The boxes are made up of air filters, cardboard, and a box fan and are helping to improve the air quality.

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  • Mapping for Better Coverage: How GIS Microplanning is Revolutionising Immunisation Campaigns in Kano State

    Geospatial Information Systems technology (GIS) maps out locations in need of vaccines, as well as how many people are vaccinated in each area. This method has increased vaccination rates for conditions like polio and has also allowed vaccination teams to update their practices instead of continuing to use paper maps.

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  • Opioid addiction recovery providers favor individual-centered treatment options for Black women

    In an effort to build non-arrest pathways to drug treatment and recoveries, like transitional housing and various support services, groups like The Sidewalk Project and Friendly House are emerging. The groups use harm-reduction measures to help women struggling with opioid addiction and lead them toward recovery when they’re ready.

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  • Las Cruces middle schoolers take action to improve the air quality of their school

    Middle school students in Las Cruces, New Mexico, built homemade air filters called Corsi-Rosenthal Boxes to help improve air quality and limit the spread of COVID-19 in classrooms.

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  • In response to COVID-19, Las Cruces middle schoolers are taking action to improve the air quality of their school

    Students at Mesilla Valley Leadership Academy are taking action to protect themselves and others against COVID-19 and other allergens by building homemade air filters, called Corsi-Rosenthal boxes. The boxes are relatively inexpensive when compared to standard HEPA air filters and help reduce COVID-19 virus transmission and improve air quality. So far, students at the Academy have built nine box filters to help push clean air into their classrooms.

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  • Two countries, two different approaches to population programs

    The Population and Community Development Association was established in 1974 to promote family planning and has since partnered with the local government and other groups to provide family planning services, and resources, like condoms and birth control, as well as education. Widespread promotion and availability of contraceptives thanks to the group has led the uptake among women of reproductive age to go from about 17% in 1970 to 75% in 2022 — as well as a reduction in fertility rates, all of which helps to control the overall population.

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  • With Three Core Approaches, This Nonprofit is Giving Hope of Life to Children Battling Deadly Cancer in Nigeria

    The Okapi Cancer Foundation works to raise funds to support children diagnosed with cancer. On top of providing financial support for treatments, the organization also does advocacy work and childhood cancer awareness campaigns and also hosts yearly training for doctors providing cancer treatment to children. So far the organization has supported over 200 patients.

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  • ‘Sleep as medicine,' or how to make a hospital stay less unhealthy

    Following studies that show how important sleep is to hospital patients, several hospitals are revamping their practices to use sleep as medicine and take a more “patient-centered care” approach to allow patients ample time to rest and heal.

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