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  • Making women dry; here's how a foundation is reducing Nigeria's fistula burden

    September 09, 2022 |

    International Centre for Investigative Reporting |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    Fistula Foundation Nigeria helps women with obstetric fistula get free treatment and get back to daily life. The organization also works to prevent obstetric fistula through public education and training doctors.

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  • How Liberia's frontline health workers are protecting us all

    September 06, 2022 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Liberia

    Liberia's community health worker program taps residents of rural areas to receive training in disease surveillance and basic health care, creating a network of on-the-ground professionals to report potential outbreaks before they begin to spread. The program has contributed to more rapid treatment of malaria cases, with 71 percent of cases treated within 24 hours in 2021, and has significantly increased the number of rural residents with access to care.

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  • Cleveland Water replaces 100% of lead service lines to day care centers; interior work remains

    September 06, 2022 |

    The Land |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    Cleveland Water has inspected water lines at the 445 state-licensed local childcare facilities built before 1953 to check for lead contamination since July 2021. Over half the inspected facilities were found to have lead-contaminated service lines and Cleveland Water replaced every single one of them and also provided educational water safety resources to childcare providers to ensure the water used in the facilities remains safe.

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  • Uganda's swift response to yellow fever outbreaks pays off despite challenges

    September 06, 2022 |

    Metro FM 90.8 |

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    Response Location: Uganda, Wakiso

    Uganda's National Guidelines for Integrated Diseases Surveillance and Response outlines procedures for detection, testing, and tracking of contagious illnesses. The strategy helped curb an outbreak of yellow fever in Wakiso district after health workers determined that the five cases that emerged there were in people who had recently traveled and brought the disease back with them.

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  • This Support Group Is Helping Youths Overcome Drug, Substance Abuse In Kaduna

    September 05, 2022 |

    HumAngle |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kaduna

    The Youth Orphans and Widows Empowerment organization works to help young people experiencing addiction through various projects including psychosocial support and connections to organizations that help them develop skills and find housing. Over the years the group has linked dozens of people to different treatments, as well as vocational training to help them find jobs.

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  • Greece: Dental care for refugees

    September 05, 2022 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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    Response Location: Greece, Chios

    A father/daughter dentist duo provides dental services to refugees in need of care by setting up a pop-up clinic at a refugee camp on the Greek island of Chios. The pop-up clinic provides much-needed dental care to the refugees who haven’t had the ability to care for their teeth during their journey to Europe and dentists from around the world will take turns staffing the clinic on a volunteer basis.

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  • Juhudi za kupunguza mkurupuko wa homa ya Dengue Mombasa Part -2

    September 05, 2022 |

    RadioRahma |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    Ili kukabili mkurupuko wa homa ya dengue, serikali ya kaunti ya Mombasa pia iliajiri vijana waliozibua mitaro ya maji taka na kutibu visima vya maji kila eneo bunge. Wakazi pia walishauriwa kujipaka mafuta ya kufukuza mbu na kuvaa nguo ndefu za kufunika miguu.

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  • Juhudi za kupunguza mkurupuko wa homa ya Dengue Mombasa Part -1

    September 05, 2022 |

    RadioRahma |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Kenya

    Serikali ya kaunti ya Mombasa ilitumia wahudumu wa afya wakujitolea kutoa hamasa kwa jamii kuhusu umuhimu wa kuweka mazingira safi.Kila mhudumu wa afya alipewa nyumba 50 za kutembelea na kuwahamasisha wanajamii kuhusu maswala ya afya hasa homa ya dengue.Hatua iliyopelekea kupungua kwa visa vya homa ya dengue.

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  • The hospital train helping Ukraine's sick and wounded

    September 04, 2022 |

    Al Jazeera |

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    Response Location: Ukraine

    In Ukraine, Médecins Sans Frontières, or Doctors Without Borders, operates a specialized train service to transport patients from hospitals in battle-torn areas of the country to facilities in safer regions. The train, which is outfitted with beds, generators for medical equipment, and an intensive care unit, has evacuated more than 1,000 people in critical need of treatment so far, including those with war-related injuries as well as chronic health concerns.

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  • How Telementoring Programme Aided Sudan's Fight against COVID-19

    September 02, 2022 |

    Science Africa |

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    Response Location: Sudan

    To make healthcare more accessible and relieve overwhelmed medical centers, Sudanese American doctors used telementoring to train over 400 medical students across Sudan in the necessary skills to serve their local communities.

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