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  • How this Limpopo NGO prepared itself for Trump funding cuts

    April 29, 2025 |

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    Response Location: South Africa, Limpopo

    After sudden U.S. government funding cuts jeopardized South Africa's HIV programs, Limpopo's Hlokomela Clinic quickly reorganized around existing resources, training community health workers to identify and encourage farm workers to visit still-operational clinic sites for HIV testing. By leveraging volunteers, they partially offset the impact of losing their dedicated HIV testing outreach team and program funding.

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  • The Scramble to Save Rural Health Care From DOGE

    April 21, 2025 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Perry, Alabama

    The Cahaba Medical Care Clinic is a community health center providing care to rural residents in need. Rural areas are often designated as “medically underserved” regions, but Cahaba has helped increase access to affordable care, reduce the county’s infant mortality rate and even created a revolving door for new medical professionals as they established themselves as a teaching hospital. However, the current administration and DOGE threaten to dismantle the funding and necessary systems that make rural healthcare of this scale possible.

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  • Ancient Himalayan Water Temples Are Meeting Modern Needs

    April 15, 2025 |

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    Response Location: India

    The Central Himalayan Rural Action Group, an NGO based in India, is restoring special Himalayan freshwater springs known naulas. Since 2008, the organization has been involved in the restoration of more than 6,000 springs.

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  • Paying ranchers to host elk? Novel approach could help wean Wyoming off its feedground habit.

    March 31, 2025 |

    WyoFile |

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    Response Location: United States, Wyoming

    A novel initiative in Wyoming pays ranchers to voluntarily host elk on their private lands, decreasing dependence on disease-spreading public feedgrounds, reducing ranchers' costs, and providing promising results, though scalability and funding challenges remain significant obstacles.

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  • The Fifth Vital Sign: Atlanta Doctors Are Talking Climate Change With Patients

    March 25, 2025 |

    The Xylom |

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    Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

    Doctors are leveraging trust built over time with patients to combat misinformation around climate change. The Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health and its affiliates, including Georgia Clinicians for Climate Action, train healthcare providers on climate communication through fellowships, advocacy work, and educational materials to better equip them for these conversations.

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  • Helping the children of sex workers

    March 18, 2025 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: India, Kolkata

    The DIKSHA youth club looks after the children of sex workers when their mothers are working. The club teaches youth about their rights, bodily autonomy and empowers them to take control of their futures and avoid joining the sex trade themselves. The club started in 2001, and over the past two decades, it has helped prevent young girls from joining the sex trade, reduced rates of trafficking in the area and also helped reduce the stigma children of sex workers face.

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  • How Nigeria's Biggest Party Made HIV Testing Cool

    March 17, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Calabar, Cross River

    The Wise Up Campaign works to increase HIV testing rates and reduce transmission of the disease through educational efforts and connecting with young people, a particularly high-risk group, to spread awareness and connect them with necessary resources. Since forming, the campaign has reached over 500,000 young people with HIV counseling and testing, as well as condom distribution, and has even trained several young volunteers to continue spreading the message to their peers.

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  • As Heat Deaths Rise, Planting Trees Is Part of the Solution

    March 10, 2025 |

    The Revelator |

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    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    To address shade inequality and rising heat deaths, the American Forests launched a digital tool in 2021 that scores geographic areas based on tree canopy and surface temperature, as well as other factors such as income, employment, race, age and health. It then calculates a Tree Equity Score and maps out the regions that have the greatest need for trees. With this information, Tucson aims to plant one million trees by 2030, and has already planted 120,000 over the past four years.

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  • A breath of fresh air: How Kigali's car-free Sundays keep people moving

    February 21, 2025 |

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    Response Location: Rwanda, Kigali

    Kigali's Car-Free Sundays encourage exercise and offer health screenings, with nearly 50,000 residents screened for non-communicable diseases, like high blood pressure, during these events between 2016 and 2020. The events aim to not only encourage healthier lifestyles, but also to promote cleaner air by reducing the number of cars on the road.

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  • Successful rural county health program could go statewide—if politics don't get in the way

    February 06, 2025 |

    North Carolina Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    The Healthy Opportunities pilot program uses Medicaid dollars to address non-medical needs like food access, transportation and housing. Since launching in 2022, the program has assisted nearly 30,000 people in 33 of the state’s 100 counties. Research shows the state is spending about $85 less in medical costs per month for each participant, and lawmakers are currently weighing whether to expand the program.

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