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  • The Secret To Polio Eradication In India

    March 15, 2014 |

    Forbes |

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    Response Location: India, New Delhi

    Population scale and density, insanitary conditions, and malnourishment meant that eradicating polio in India was a tall order. The government, alongside WHO, managed to do it in 2014 using a comprehensive approach.

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  • Dr. Yogi: Physicians Integrate Yoga Into Medical Practice

    February 27, 2014 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts

    A nonprofit is integrating yoga therapy in the mainstream health care system by training medical providers to use yogic breathing and techniques to treat various maladies.

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  • Veterans at Home, on a Mission of Compassion

    February 26, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    A program based on the proven idea that helping others is healing, usually more healing than being helped.

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  • A Small West Virginia Town Rallies For Better Health

    February 05, 2014 |

    KFF Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Williamson, West Virginia

    “Sustainable Williamson” combined ideas and initiatives from local officials, community members, nonprofit organizations to address both the economy and the well-being of a community where unemployment and drug use were climbing.

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  • How Community Health Workers Dramatically Improve Healthcare

    February 04, 2014 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Oromia

    Popular in some countries and catching on in the U.S., community health workers fill gaping holes in care. The workers help curb health care costs by preventing complicated disease and emergency room visits.

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  • An Afghan Success Story: Fewer Child Deaths

    February 04, 2014 |

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    Response Location: Afghanistan, Guldara

    Child mortality rates are decreasing in Afghanistan due to more readily available basic health care, more effective vaccinations, and locally-trained volunteer health workers.

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  • Playing With Toys and Saving Lives

    January 29, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Nicaragua, Jinotepe, Carazo

    Many different people are inventing health devices for resource-poor settings, but some organizations - like M.I.T.’s Little Devices group - are empowering developing communities and increasing access to healthcare by building medical devices that nurses and doctors in very poor settings can adapt themselves — or kits for making their own, often harvesting parts from toys to cleverly rig up medical equipment. It’s part of a major idea shift, one that’s transforming the design of foreign aid.

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  • A Court's All-Hands Approach Aids Girls Most at Risk

    January 28, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    Girls Court brings an all-hands-on-deck approach to the lives of vulnerable girls, linking them to social service agencies, providing informal Saturday sessions on everything from body image to legal jargon, and offering a team of adults in whom they can develop trust.

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  • Playing the Odds on Saving

    January 15, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Michigan

    Lotteries aren’t usually considered part of the solution to a savings crisis experienced across America, particularly by the nation's poor, but with more hopefuls purchasing lottery tickets than setting aside rainy day funds, one organization, Doorways to Dreams, is working to change federal and state laws to allow banks to offer prize-linked savings. In Michigan, the programs have seen some success.

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  • Dropouts flooding Kent's second-change iGrad school

    January 12, 2014 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Kent, Washington

    Cities save money and help kids by connecting them with diploma programs. In Washington, iGrad is helping students do just this – and seeing results.

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