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  • School-based telehealth expands further in North Carolina

    Multiple hospital systems and health organizations across North Carolina have implemented school-based telehealth programs so students can receive medical and behavioral health care during the school day, making care more accessible. Evidence shows students who participate in the telehealth program see better attendance and academic performance, as well as improvements in their mental health.

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  • Two Men's Mission to Restoring Eye Sights amid Searing Temperatures in Kwara State

    Working closely with Opeyemi Mega Eye Clinic, two local men created a grassroots outreach program to provide free and discounted cataract and glaucoma surgeries, and have successfully restored vision for hundreds of residents between 2021 and 2024.

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  • Rapid-response teams aid troubled youths in New Jersey – but funding limits Maryland's similar effort

    New Jersey’s Mobile Response and Stabilization Services help support youth in crisis by connecting them with a mental health professional to avoid unnecessary emergency room visits or police calls. New Jersey’s system has been an inspiration to other states looking to implement similar services, and it served over 32,000 youth in 2023 alone.

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  • Paying ranchers to host elk? Novel approach could help wean Wyoming off its feedground habit.

    A novel initiative in Wyoming pays ranchers to voluntarily host elk on their private lands, decreasing dependence on disease-spreading public feedgrounds, reducing ranchers' costs, and providing promising results, though scalability and funding challenges remain significant obstacles.

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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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.

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

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