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Telemedicine brings doctors to Indian Health hospitals with recruitment challenges

Jayme Fraser

May 08, 2016 |

The Billings Gazette |

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Response Location: United States, Lame Deer, Montana

Lame Deer Health Center in Montana is the first Indian Health Service facility to use telemedicine in its emergency room and clinics. The rooms are equipped with cameras and television monitors and a button that can call specialists or support staff from all over the country. Patients at this facility are now able to see medical specialists or have their cases evaluated by specialists from their rooms, providing more comprehensive healthcare to patients in a rural setting.

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Can water ATMs solve India's water crisis?

Fred de Sam Lazaro Judy Woodruff

April 13, 2016 |

PBS NewsHour |

Broadcast TV News |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: India, Delhi, National Capital Territory of Delhi

In many rural communities in India, access to clean drinking water is still scarce. The cost of bottled water is prohibitive, city pipes are in poor condition, and the municipal tanker trucks that supply some water are haphazard. But a social business called Sarvajal is busy scaling up a solution: a water ATM. These machines allow people to scan a pre-paid card and withdraw purified water from a stable, convenient source within their community when needed.

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Brazilian Doctor Crafts System Hailed As 'Way Forward' For Combating Zika

Lulu Garcia-Navarro

April 10, 2016 |

NPR |

Radio |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: Brazil, Paraiba

Pediatric cardiologist Sandra Mattos had set up a network of doctors and hospitals working with tiny heart patients via telemedicine. Her system now also helps remote Zika sufferers.

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Drones Marshaled to Drop Lifesaving Supplies Over Rwandan Terrain

John Markoff

April 04, 2016 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Half Moon Bay, California

Zipline, a start-up based in California, raised $18 million and partnered with the small African country to shuttle packages of blood and emergency medicine.

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How New York Gets Its Water

Emily S. Rueb

March 30, 2016 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Nine and a half million people consume what has been called the champagne of drinking water. We took a look at its journey from source to tap.

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The Unrelenting Specter of Drug-Resistant Malaria

Sarika Bansal

March 29, 2016 |

Bright Magazine |

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Response Location: Thailand, Bangkok

Every time scientists think they’ve controlled malaria, drug resistance pops up in Southeast Asia. What will it take to stop a deadly global comeback of the disease?

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Letting (Some of) India's Women Own Land

Tina Rosenberg

March 22, 2016 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: India, Baripada, Odisha

Finally, the right to own land in their own name has begun to change the way thousands of very poor women farm and feed families in some parts of India.

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Healing India's Traditional Healers

Sophie Cousins

March 09, 2016 |

Bright Magazine |

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Response Location: India, Suri, West Bengal

India has an estimated 2.5 million medical “quacks.” Can they be trained to do no harm?

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This Woman Has Collected 40,000 Feminine Products to Boost the Self-Esteem of Homeless Women

Sybile Penhirin

February 29, 2016 |

NationSwell |

Video |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

Day to day necessities like bras can turn into luxuries for homeless women. Dana Marlowe collects women's old bras and gives them to homeless women.

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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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