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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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  • Volunteer scientists work 'nights and weekends' to guide vaccine advice in US

    October 06, 2025 |

    Nature |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    When the Trump administration fired the federal vaccine advisory panel, a group of volunteer scientists created the Vaccine Integrity Project to conduct independent, comprehensive reviews of vaccine data. Their review has influenced real-world vaccine policy, with several major medical organizations using their data to update guidelines and share vaccine information publicly.

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

    October 05, 2025 |

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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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  • Meet the AI chatbot that's talking to young South Africans about sex, HIV and self-harm

    October 02, 2025 |

    Bhekisisa |

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    Response Location: South Africa, Cape Town

    Self-Cav is an AI chatbot that provides judgment-free, 24/7 information to young South Africans about HIV prevention, sexual health, and mental health via WhatsApp, allowing them to connect to real healthcare workers when needed. The chatbot is specifically designed to create demand for the HIV prevention medication PrEP among young women. Nearly 10,000 young people have used the chatbot platform, and 25% have been successfully linked to clinics or healthcare workers for PrEP, HIV testing, contraceptives, or mental health support.

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  • Sydani bridges vaccine gaps in Anambra

    October 02, 2025 |

    Radio Nigeria |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Ogbaru, Anambra

    The Saving Lives and Livelihoods Project tackles vaccine access barriers in hard-to-reach communities by bringing immunization services directly to families on farms and in remote camps with trained mobile health teams. Since the work began, immunizations have increased in several areas, and children who were previously overdue have since been vaccinated.

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  • Cedar Oaks Clinic is reimagining what mental health care can look like

    September 23, 2025 |

    North Carolina Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Wake Forest, North Carolina

    In response to gaps in accessing psychiatric care, Cedar Oaks Clinic developed a team-based mental health care model that provides alternatives to psychiatric hospitalization through same-day crisis services, six-week intensive community programs, and collaborative care involving 30 specialized staff members. The clinic uses a holistic approach where providers from different specialties work together to create individualized treatment plans. So far, the clinic has served 3,000 patients, receiving hundreds of positive reviews.

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  • Can filtering seawater provide for a thirsty world?

    September 08, 2025 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: Morocco

    Morocco's implementation of seawater desalination plants has successfully provided drinking water to 1.6 million people and enabled record agricultural exports for large-scale tomato producers, while simultaneously revealing the technology's limitations in addressing broader water needs due to high costs, geographic constraints, and environmental impacts that benefit only well-funded farms near coastal facilities.

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  • Health Care Groups Aim To Counter Growing 'National Scandal' of Elder Homelessness

    August 18, 2025 |

    KFF Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, East Providence, Rhode Island

    PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) organizations are tackling the growing crisis of elder homelessness by expanding beyond traditional medical services to secure housing. These Medicaid and Medicare-funded organizations are partnering with senior housing providers, leasing apartment wings, and even developing their own housing projects to ensure their 83,000+ participants nationwide have stable places to live.

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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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