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Innovative 'HUB' model improves infant mortality and saves money: Saving the Smallest

Brie Zeltner

February 03, 2016 |

Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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Response Location: United States, Mansfield, Ohio

The Pathways Community HUB model, born in Mansfield as way to improve pregnancy outcomes, is becoming a national model. Its success is in large part due to its rewarding only caretakers whose patients achieve certain health milestones.

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Contraception Drones Are The Future Of Women's Health In Rural Africa

Laura Bassett

January 27, 2016 |

Pulitzer Center |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: Ghana

Project Last Mile has for months been successfully flying birth control, condoms and other medical supplies to rural areas of Ghana on 5-foot-wide drones, expanding access by completing that final mile of delivery.

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Cuba's Focus on Preventive Medicine Pays Off

Sam Loewenberg

January 23, 2016 |

International Reporting Project |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Cuba

Cuba’s emphasis on public health, primary care, and training thousands of medical professionals has resulted in health successes and lessons for other countries.

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Reducing Unnecessary C-Section Births

Tina Rosenberg

January 19, 2016 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

A pilot project in hospitals in California finds ways to avoid Caesarean sections when the expense and risks are not medically necessary. The need to avoid C-sections stems from the dangers the operation poses to mothers.

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Indian women hear some crazy things about their periods

Ankita Rao

January 10, 2016 |

USA Today |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: India, New Delhi, Delhi

More than 300 million women and girls don't have access to the hygiene products they need because of taboos and a lack of resources. Education is helping change that, as are organizations that provide sanitary pads.

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India's Maternal Care Crisis: Is There A Solution?

Meera Vijayann

December 14, 2015 |

Forbes |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: India, Dombivli

A social enterprise in India addresses the root causes of the country's maternal health care crisis, studying social and economic factors that contribute to infant deaths, domestic violence, and improper maternal health care practices. The enterprise, SNEHA, builds relationships with mothers to learn about their health and domestic violence history, and offers financial and health care support.

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In one of Africa's largest slums, these girls saved to solve a problem

Marco Werman

December 14, 2015 |

Public Radio International (PRI) |

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5-15 Minutes

Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi, Nairobi

Girls from the Nairobi slum of Kibera had a problem: They could not attend school because they could not afford sanitary pads. Absent government help, they decided to form a savings group, depositing and investing money.

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How Baltimore cut its infant mortality rate: Saving the Smallest

Brie Zeltner

December 11, 2015 |

Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

Since B'More for Healthy Babies launched in Baltimore in 2009, Baltimore's infant deaths have dropped by 24 percent, outstripping their home state's progress in the same period by a factor of three, and the nation's by four. Cleveland is at the beginning of its own plan to turn around decades of failure in preventing infant deaths.

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Five ways cities can reduce infant mortality: Saving the Smallest

Brie Zeltner

December 11, 2015 |

Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

Baltimore's infant mortality rate has dropped by 24 percent, and health officials there as well as independent research groups have credited the city's B'More for Healthy Babies initiative, launched in 2009.

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Baltimore's infant mortality efforts at work in poorest neighborhoods: Saving the Smallest

Brie Zeltner

December 11, 2015 |

Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

When Baltimore launched a citywide effort to reduce infant mortality in 2009 called B'More for Healthy Babies, Upton Druid Heights was a prime target. That effort has since cut down infant deaths in the city by 24 percent and led to a record low number of annual sleep-related infant deaths.

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