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Non-Profit Works to Reduce Maternal and Child Mortality

Victor Christopher

December 30, 2022 |

Nigeria Info FM |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

The Center for Human Rights and Civic Education launched an outreach program that aims to improve maternal and child healthcare by spreading information on the importance of antenatal sessions and care. The nonprofit also has a weekly radio program to further spread information about this important care. The program started in 2017 and has since held 28 outreach events with healthcare providers and community members.

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Maternal deaths in the U.S. are staggeringly common. Personal nurses could help

Laura Benshoff

December 27, 2022 |

NPR |

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Response Location: United States, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania

The Nurse-Family Partnership pairs low-income, first-time parents with a personal nurse from pregnancy through their child's second birthday. The Partnership serves 56,000 families each year, and works to help improve pregnancy outcomes for both parents and their babies through early education, access to care and helping to empower parents to get the care they need.

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Building community against cancer: When it comes to terminal illnesses, mental health comes first

Promise Eze

December 22, 2022 |

Social Voices |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

Project Pink Blue provides psychological support, cancer awareness education, free cancer screenings, and fundraising for cancer patients and cancer research. The nonprofit has also trained healthcare workers through its Breast Cancer Navigation Program to ensure they know how to properly treat patients. So far they’ve trained 44 healthcare workers and they also run a support group of about 150 members to connect people impacted by cancer.

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Lessons from Germany to help solve the U.S. medical debt crisis

Noam N. Levey

December 14, 2022 |

NPR |

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Response Location: Germany, Saarland

Unlike the U.S., in Germany medical debt is almost nonexistent because the country limits how much patients have to pay out-of-pocket for doctor and hospital visits and medications. Affordable access to health care has made German patients less likely than Americans to die from conditions that can be treated with good access to care, such as heart attacks, diabetes, pneumonia, and some cancers.

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Treating Farmworkers on Their Terms

David Bacon

December 13, 2022 |

Capital & Main |

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Response Location: United States, Salinas, California

Community health clinics provide a space for indigenous people to access both traditional and nontraditional medicine as there’s a significant disconnect between indigenous communities and modern healthcare institutions. These community clinics increase healthcare access for indigenous communities and present care in an easily accessible way by taking language and cultural barriers into consideration.

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Why these health workers are spending their lives in South Africa's poorest villages

Jesse Copelyn

November 30, 2022 |

Bhekisisa |

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Response Location: South Africa, Hlabisa, KwaZulu-Natal

The Umthombo Youth Development Foundation funds health education for students from poor, rural backgrounds. Upon graduation, these students are then more likely to practice medicine in the rural communities they call home, thus increasing access to care in those areas where it’s often scarce.

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Nasarawa counts gains of BHCPF two years after launch

Marcus Fatunmole

November 19, 2022 |

International Centre for Investigative Reporting |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Nasarawa

The Basic Health Care Provision Fund establishes government health facilities that allow people to access care for free. WHen the fund started in 2021, it had 16,000 enrollees and as of October 2022 there were 38,600 enrollees in the state.

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Haihuwa Lafiya: Preventing Maternal Mortality in Jigawa State One Trip at a Time

Elijah Akoji

November 15, 2022 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Jigawa

The Maternal and Neonatal Emergency Transport Scheme helps to increase access to healthcare services for women and newborns in rural areas through its informal transport/ambulance service. There are currently 2,500 registered drivers with the program willing to transport those in need of care and they serve about 70-90 women in labor each month.

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A growing club: Membership-based direct primary care reimagines health coverage

Olivia Belanger

November 12, 2022 |

Sentinel Source (The Keene Sentinel) |

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Response Location: United States, Peterborough, New Hampshire

Healthcare providers are turning to the direct primary care model to avoid being overbooked and to provide their patients with more personalized care. In this model, a membership fee is paid directly to the provider instead of billed to insurance agencies.

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In Cameroon, epilepsy myths fuel stigma but a nonprofit is changing the narrative

Promise Eze

November 03, 2022 |

Social Voices |

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Response Location: Cameroon, Bamenda

The Epilepsy Awareness, Aid, and Research Foundation is a nonprofit that fights to reduce stigma and discrimination against people living with epilepsy. The Foundation provides free basic healthcare, anti-epileptic medications, and even has a program that trains youth to raise awareness of epilepsy and the stigma surrounding it within their communities.

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