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The Fifth Vital Sign: Atlanta Doctors Are Talking Climate Change With Patients

Alex Music

March 25, 2025 |

The Xylom |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

Doctors are leveraging trust built over time with patients to combat misinformation around climate change. The Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health and its affiliates, including Georgia Clinicians for Climate Action, train healthcare providers on climate communication through fellowships, advocacy work, and educational materials to better equip them for these conversations.

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In Massachusetts and elsewhere, youngsters find healing through art

Tolu Talabi

March 24, 2025 |

Capital News Service Maryland |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Lynn, Massachusetts

Raw Art Works is a nonprofit youth development organization that provides art therapy services to 290 youth each week. Studies show art therapy can reduce psychiatric readmission rates for patients, and those who participated in the program say it has been life-changing, teaching them coping skills that supported them into adulthood.

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Helping the children of sex workers

Myra Anubi, Puja Bhattacharjee

March 18, 2025 |

BBC |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: India, Kolkata

The DIKSHA youth club looks after the children of sex workers when their mothers are working. The club teaches youth about their rights, bodily autonomy and empowers them to take control of their futures and avoid joining the sex trade themselves. The club started in 2001, and over the past two decades, it has helped prevent young girls from joining the sex trade, reduced rates of trafficking in the area and also helped reduce the stigma children of sex workers face.

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LALIF Sparking a New Dawn of Hope For Neglected Deaf Blind

Blessing Oladunjoye

March 18, 2025 |

BONews |

Video |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: Nigeria

Lionheart Ability Leaders International Foundation (LALIF) uses a comprehensive training program to empower parents, teachers and those living with vision and hearing impairment. Their programming teaches educators how to understand tactile sign language, and also empowers parents on how best to support their children living with disabilities.

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How Nigeria's Biggest Party Made HIV Testing Cool

Ogar Monday

March 17, 2025 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Calabar, Cross River

The Wise Up Campaign works to increase HIV testing rates and reduce transmission of the disease through educational efforts and connecting with young people, a particularly high-risk group, to spread awareness and connect them with necessary resources. Since forming, the campaign has reached over 500,000 young people with HIV counseling and testing, as well as condom distribution, and has even trained several young volunteers to continue spreading the message to their peers.

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Yadda hukumar Zakah da Wakafi ta rage radadin kudin samu lafiya ga jama'ar Gusau.

Shamsu Dahiru

March 15, 2025 |

Gold City FM 105.5 |

Radio |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: Nigeria, Gusau

Jamar Gusau sun samu rangwami biyan kudin asibiti daga Hukuman Zakah da Wakafi.

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Yanda taimakon kamfanin mai zaman kanta ya haifar da samun lantarki a asibitin Zamfara.

Junaidu Dahiru

March 15, 2025 |

Gold City FM 105.5 |

Radio |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: Nigeria, Gusau

Samun lantarki ta kara kuzarin jama'a zuwa samo lafiya a asibitin Zamfara. Kamfanin zaman kanta ta bunkasa gwaji cututtuka ta hanyar fadada wutan solar.

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Lafiya Uwar jika: Yadda Dan majalisa ya share hawayen al'umman Runji a Zamfara

Sabiu Hassan

March 14, 2025 |

Gold City FM 105.5 |

Radio |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: Nigeria, Bungudu

Al'umman Runji ta samu jara a sha'a nin samu asibiti bayan wahalar shekaru. Wanan jaran ta samu ne ta hada hannun al'umma da wakilin su a Majalisa a Abuja.

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As Heat Deaths Rise, Planting Trees Is Part of the Solution

Karen Mockler

March 10, 2025 |

The Revelator |

Multi-Media |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

To address shade inequality and rising heat deaths, the American Forests launched a digital tool in 2021 that scores geographic areas based on tree canopy and surface temperature, as well as other factors such as income, employment, race, age and health. It then calculates a Tree Equity Score and maps out the regions that have the greatest need for trees. With this information, Tucson aims to plant one million trees by 2030, and has already planted 120,000 over the past four years.

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Deposit before Treatment: The Initiative Standing in the Gap for Cashless Patients

Chidera Eze

March 06, 2025 |

The Solutions Paper |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

The Health Emergency Initiative (HEI) responds to health emergencies and pays for medical bills for those who can’t afford them, helping ensure they’re not turned away from the hospital. HEI currently supports 78 hospitals across 12 states, and has intervened in 3,750 emergency road and home accident cases, paying medical bills for 33,500 patients.

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