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How This DC Birth Center Is Building the ‘Answer for Black Women'

Miriam Zoila Perez

July 31, 2018 |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

Community of Hope, a health clinic, is offering a prenatal program called “Centering Pregnancy.” Participants meet bi weekly and cover topics related to pregnancy until the end of their term. The goal is to improve the lives of vulnerable populations, in particular black women who face disproportionately higher rates of maternal mortality rates. "137 women came through the Centering program, representing 78 percent of the delivery clients seen by the nurse midwives at FHBC," and "only 5.8 percent gave birth preterm, and 4.6 percent had infants born underweight."

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New York City Launches Initiative to Eliminate Racial Disparities in Maternal Death

Annie Waldman

July 30, 2018 |

ProPublica |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

To combat racial disparities in maternal health care, New York is funding a partnership program between the city and communities to improve maternal healthcare for women of color. Both public and private hospitals will implement implicit bias training and the city will work to improve its data collection. Hospitals will also receive funds for health coordinators to make sure women are accessing care.

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Training India's Fake Doctors

Sam Judah Harriet Noble

July 30, 2018 |

BBC |

Radio |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: India, West Bengal

A 9-month course is giving India’s rural healthcare workers their first formal education in medicine. The program doesn’t solve the problem of underqualified people casting themselves as doctors. However, it has helped participants offer better care to their communities, which typically don’t have access to licensed doctors.

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To Keep Women From Dying In Childbirth, Look To California

Renee Montagne

July 29, 2018 |

NPR |

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Response Location: United States, Pomona, California

A collaborative of California hospitals has developed standard procedures for situations that threaten a mother’s life during childbirth as well as a “toolkit” of everything staff need for a rapid response. As a result, maternal death rates fell by 55% over the first seven years of the collaborative.

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A Boston hospital promotes patient health with its own rooftop farm

Jaime Kaiser

July 28, 2018 |

Public Radio International (PRI) |

Radio |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

Boston Medical Center is growing food on the roof. Their rooftop garden produces fresh fruits and vegetables for the hospital. The cafeteria serves patients fresh, healthy meals and teaches employees how to manage farm to table practices.

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'Uber For Poop' Aims To Break Up Senegal's Toilet Cartel

Robert Smith

July 27, 2018 |

NPR |

Radio |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: Senegal, Dakar

In Senegal, emptying your septic taste is expensive business; the two options, hiring someone to shovel it onto the street or paying a high price to the "cartel of 'toilet suckers,'" are not sustainable for residents or public health. To force members of the raw sewage cartel to compete with each other and lower prices, a new call center "auctions" the service by text to individual sellers instead of forcing people to contend with a banded group, and "prices for toilet suckers have come down an average of 7 percent" since the program began.

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Standing Rock Medic Bus Is Now a Traveling Decolonized Pharmacy

Mary Annette Pember

July 27, 2018 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, Frank's Landing, Washington

Indigenous-led herbalists accompanied a two-week-long canoe gathering along the coast of Washington and Canada. They aimed to decolonize herbalism and support sustainable plant medicine and helped canoe gathering participants find “a deeper healing.” The group rode in a bus that previously served as a kitchen and treatment center during the Standing Rock movement.

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In Palawan, reproductive health remains a top concern

Portia Ladrido

July 27, 2018 |

CNN |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Philippines

Roots of Change provides reproductive health education to young people in the Philippines. Despite resistance from the conservative government, they’re working to educate young people about sex to cur down on high maternal mortality and teen pregnancy. They train residents in rural areas, so that people outside of big cities have access to correct information about their bodies.

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Wastewater treatment is a problem in the rural South. Who is working to fix it?

Melissa Brown

July 26, 2018 |

The Montgomery Advertiser |

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Response Location: United States, Haynesville, Alabama

In the South's rural Black Belt, wastewater management is an issue, but local activists, government officials, and civil engineers are working together to create a new type of sanitation system that works for the geography. The approach also includes public information campaigns to educate people about proper maintenance and stop rumors that can prevent that maintenance.

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How environmental outreach efforts are targeting Philly Latinos: The most interested in climate change, study shows

Jesenia De Moya Correa

July 25, 2018 |

The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Studies have shown that U.S. Latinos are one of the mostly highly invested groups in helping fight against climate change, yet are also often left out of the conversation. Philadelphia’s Office of Sustainability as well as other local agencies are making an effort to bridge that gap and engage Latinos through better targeted environmental outreach efforts.

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