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  • Healing India's Traditional Healers

    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

    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

    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

    January 23, 2016 |

    International Reporting Project |

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    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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  • In India, Dispensers of Balm Travel to Death's Door

    January 12, 2016 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: India, Kerala

    The palliative care system in Kerala, India, has been singled out as a beacon of hope in offering the possibility of a dignified death to everyone by safely providing morphine.

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  • The Formal World Economy Was Failing Women and Small Farmers. So This Guy Built a New One.

    December 08, 2015 |

    GOOD Magazine |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Cartagena

    The Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership develops enterprises that foster sustainable economic development, focusing especially on empowering farmers and women.

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  • Are These Women the Key to Safer Abortions in India?

    November 17, 2015 |

    Cosmopolitan |

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    Response Location: India, Pune, Maharashtra

    In rural areas in India, lack of physicians is a big barrier to safe abortions, leading women to undergo deadly procedures. A proposed law by the Indian government would allow midwives and mid-level providers to perform abortions.

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  • Smart African Politics: Candidates Debating Under a Tree

    November 10, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Sierra Leone

    Voters tend to know a lot about presidential and local candidates but little about those in between. In Sierra Leone, an organization hosted, filmed, and then projected the debates in villages, increasing voters’ knowledge of the candidates and issues, and changing the way people voted.

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  • Straight talk about sex in the Canadian Arctic

    October 29, 2015 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: Canada, Fort Smith, Northwest Territories

    Rates of teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, and domestic violence are disproportionately higher among indigenous women, and girls in rural villages in the Canadian north are at particular risk. FOXY, a traveling organization dedicated to bringing sexual education and health to these hard-to-reach communities, provides an innovative and inclusive approach to teaching youth about sexual and relationship health.

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  • A Family Matter: Saving Papua New Guinea's mothers

    October 25, 2015 |

    Al Jazeera |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Papua New Guinea

    A doctor in Papua New Guinea finds that involving men in family planning is the key to reducing maternal mortality.

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