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Frontline health clinics adapt to climate challenges with assistance from a free resource

Will Atwater

January 13, 2025 |

North Carolina Health News |

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Response Location: United States, Sanford, North Carolina

The Climate Resilience for Frontline Clinics Toolkit was developed to help healthcare providers prepare for and respond to climate-related emergencies. The toolkit offers guidance on patient communication, disaster preparedness and environmental health risks. The toolkit was created in collaboration with Americares and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with co-development from free clinics and community health centers serving low-income and uninsured patients.

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NC addiction treatment programs partner to reduce maternal deaths from substance use

Rachel Crumpler

January 09, 2025 |

North Carolina Health News |

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Response Location: Holy See (Vatican City State), North Carolina

Six programs throughout the state, including the SUN Project and Project CARA, are working to provide support to pregnant mothers navigating a substance use disorder. With support from the North Carolina Perinatal Substance Use Disorder Network, the programs share best practices for treating perinatal substance use and expand access to treatment. Project CARA alone serves more than 200 patients each year.

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The City That Wiped Out $100 Million in Medical Debt

Aysha Khan, Lucas Grindley

January 08, 2025 |

Next City |

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Response Location: United States, St. Paul, Minnesota

The city government of St. Paul, Minn. partnered with Undue Medical Debt, a nonprofit organization that buys up and forgives personal medical debt. Leveraging pandemic relief funds, the city was able to forgive more than $100 million in medical debt through the partnership.

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Planting the Future: How a Nigerian University is Tackling Food Insecurity with Agricultural Innovation

Mohammed Dahiru Lawal

January 06, 2025 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

Bayero University Center for Dryland Agriculture’s Tissue Culture Lab empowers local farmers with advanced research and technology to adapt to climate change and increase food security and nutrition. So far, 22 communities have benefited from the Lab’s expertise, leading to increased food production and fewer health problems caused by inadequate diets.

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The Welcoming Climate Shelters of Barcelona

Kaja Šeruga

January 03, 2025 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: Spain, Barcelona

The Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona is a key part of the city’s growing climate shelter network, which has expanded from 70 locations in 2020 to 368 last summer. The climate centers are integrated into the city’s public infrastructure — libraries, parks, museums, etc. — and have expanded to the point where 98% of the population is within a 10-minute walk from a shelter.

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Idea: Open Health Hubs, One-Stop Shops for Addiction Recovery

Sammy Caiola

December 23, 2024 |

The Philadelphia Citizen |

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Response Location: United States, Washington

Health engagement hubs like Washington state’s Buprenorphine Pathways connect people with prescriptions for methadone and buprenorphine to help treat addiction. In addition to medication and a syringe-exchange program, the hub also connects patients to social services, taking a more holistic approach to addiction treatment.

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Feeding Hope: An MSF-Backed Nutrition Project is Giving Malnourished Children a Fighting Chance in Katsina

Mahdi Garba

December 23, 2024 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Kofar Sauri, Katsina

Médecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) launched a nutrition project in collaboration with the Katsina State Ministry of Health to provide healthcare and support to children suffering from malnutrition. Currently, the organization has four centers throughout the state. Year over year, the centers are seeing an increase in the number of patients, having cared for about 20,000 patients from January 2024 to October 2024 alone.

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Beneath Branko's Bridge

Vladimira Dorcova Valtnerova

December 18, 2024 |

Transitions Online |

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Response Location: Serbia, Belgrade

The Drumodom program meets people experiencing homelessness where they are with a mobile doctor’s office as well as a retrofitted bus that offers showers, hygiene products, and hair cuts given by volunteers. The service is often clients’ only means of receiving medical care, and more than 1,200 people benefited from such care in the first nine months of 2024.

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Intergenerational care benefits children and seniors. Why is it still so rare?

Emily Tate Sullivan

December 17, 2024 |

EdSurge News |

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Response Location: United States, Fairmont, Nebraska

At intergenerational care facilities, early learning programs co-locate with senior homes, giving students and care residents plenty of opportunities to interact. Research shows this type of intergenerational program can have physical and cognitive benefits for both the adults and the children involved in them.

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In Yemen's Refugee Camps, Midwives Fight to Ensure Safe Deliveries

Osama al-Saba'i

December 13, 2024 |

More to Her Story |

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Response Location: Yemen, Marib

In displacement camps where medical care is scarce, community midwives are working against the odds to provide safe OB-GYN care and deliveries. An individual midwife can see anywhere from 18 to 50 women a month who struggle to access basic maternal health services.

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