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Phoenix nursery provides model solution for newborns exposed to opioids

Laura Bargfeld

December 09, 2022 |

Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

Hushabye Nursery cares for babies born withdrawing from addictive substances they were exposed to in the womb. While the babies are receiving care, the Nursery connects parents with addiction treatment, child services and other necessary resources like housing assistance. Since opening its permanent facility in 2020, Hushabye Nursery has cared for more than 400 babies.

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This Group Wants to Teach You How to Get Abortions Even Where They're Banned

Charlotte Alter

December 09, 2022 |

Time Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, Oregon

Mayday Health is a health-education nonprofit that helps patients in states that have banned abortion figure out how to get abortions anyway. For people living in states where abortion is banned, Mayday provides step-by-step instructions for how to obtain abortion pills, as well as medical information about the safety and reliability of medication abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy.

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How Dobbs Triggered a ‘Vasectomy Revolution'

Jesus A. Rodriguez

December 02, 2022 |

Politico |

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Response Location: United States, Joplin, Missouri

The country’s only mobile vasectomy clinic, owned and operated by Esgar Guarín, works to get men to participate in contraception by getting a vasectomy, especially after the recent overturn of Roe v. Wade, and abortion bans across the country. Since the decision, there has been a massive spike in vasectomies. Throughout his career, Guarin has completed more than 3,000.

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How the Founder of the Nation's Only Indigenous Abortion Fund Is Expanding Reproductive Justice for a Community Long Denied It

Erica Sloan

November 27, 2022 |

Well+Good |

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Response Location: United States, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Indigenous Women Rising, is a health-care advocacy nonprofit supporting Indigenous people, which also runs the only abortion fund dedicated to Native Americans. The assistance of the IWR abortion fund extends to Native people nationwide and consists of funding for any element of abortion care that someone may need including paying for an abortion, transportation and lodging.

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La Lucha Sigue: Lessons From Latin America's Abortion Victories

Tina Vasquez

November 21, 2022 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Response Location: Mexico

Attorneys and activists in Colombia, Mexico, and Argentina used a multipronged approach to legalize abortion that included grassroots organizing, strategically initiating lawsuits, and changing cultural narratives. The last part was key to the movements’ successes because changing the laws without changing the cultural understanding of abortion as a normal part of healthcare can lead to laws not being implemented or being overturned, like what happened in the United States in 2022.

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Solar Powered Freezers: A Low Cost but High Impact Strategy Making Critical Vaccines Accessible in Southeast Kenya

Joyce Chimbi

November 21, 2022 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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Response Location: Kenya, Makindu

The solar-powered freezer donated by Green Life Energy allows vaccines to be stored at the appropriate temperature, providing more access to necessary immunizations, specifically for those in rural communities. Nurses say the freezer box has the capacity to hold up to 500 doses of different vaccines, including polio, measles, tuberculosis, and the COVID-19 vaccine.

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Haihuwa Lafiya: Preventing Maternal Mortality in Jigawa State One Trip at a Time

Elijah Akoji

November 15, 2022 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Jigawa

The Maternal and Neonatal Emergency Transport Scheme helps to increase access to healthcare services for women and newborns in rural areas through its informal transport/ambulance service. There are currently 2,500 registered drivers with the program willing to transport those in need of care and they serve about 70-90 women in labor each month.

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Collaborative care improves outcomes for those who are pregnant and addicted

Rachel Crumpler

November 03, 2022 |

North Carolina Health News |

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Response Location: United States, Cabarrus County, North Carolina

The Substance Use Network (SUN) Project brings together partners in medicine, social services, criminal justice, and recovery services, to provide care for mothers with substance use disorder and their babies. The project is guided by a patient-centered approach that uses pregnancy as an opportunity to encourage someone into treatment and since its launch, more than 40 patients have been treated

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The pilots flying passengers across US state lines for abortions

Maya Yang

October 30, 2022 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: United States, Illinois

Elevated Access was founded in response to the growing number of people being forced to cross state lines to obtain an abortion and connects those in need with volunteer pilots willing to help people make the trip. Since the supreme court stripped away federal abortion protection rights in June, Elevated Access has seen an uptick in volunteer pilots, with 870 pilots offering to transport patients across state lines.

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The classes trying to stop girls as young as 10 getting pregnant

Lucy Waldron

October 29, 2022 |

SBS News |

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Response Location: Guatemala, San Pablo la Laguna

Adolescent Health Program classes provide free healthcare, access to contraceptives, and educational programs for children lacking sexual health education to reduce childhood pregnancy, empower young women and teach children that they are in control of their bodies. Since the program began in 2018, the rates of childhood pregnancy in two of the most rural villages in the country have significantly declined.

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