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Let's Chat About Sex: Tech Platforms Target FCT Youth with Sexual Health Info

Chibuike Alagboso

November 28, 2018 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Nigeria

In a nation that traditionally does not believe or address that adolescents have sex despite overwhelming data, Nigerian web- and mobile-based platforms are expanding access to quality sexual education for youth. Education as a Vaccine (EVA), a non-governmental organization, in particular has seen success with a set of three apps called LinkUp, Frisky, and DIVA that provide anonymous, accurate, and nonjudgemental sexual and reproductive information/counseling. Since 2007, EVA has received over 900,000 text messages, 28,433 voice calls and 800 emails/web entries.

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The for-profit company that turned around Maine's failing addiction treatment initiative

Jackie Farwell

November 26, 2018 |

Bangor Daily News |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Maine

Groups Recover Together is a for-profit clinic in Maine that helps treat people addicted to opioids. It prescribes buprenorphine, provides weekly counseling, and serves around 600 people a week at 60 clinics in the country. Its retention rates are well above the national average.

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These Performers Literally Play for Their Lives

Phillip Pantuso

November 23, 2018 |

Yes! Magazine |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Kingston, New York

For musicians and artists who don’t have traditional access to healthcare, one music festival has them covered. O+ (“O Positive”) is a music festival in Kingston, NY that invites musicians and artists from around the United States to perform, and in exchange they get free access to health care services. Doctors, dentists, and other providers are recruited as volunteers. At the 2018 festival, over 173 musicians and artists made 465 clinic visits.

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Denver Becomes the Latest City to Take Mental Healthcare Into Its Own Hands

Jason Plautz

November 21, 2018 |

Bloomberg CityLab |

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Response Location: United States, Colorado

Colorado has recently adopted a new .25 percent sales tax to create a pool of funding for mental health and addiction services. The initial funds are earmarked to create a new mental health center, while the overall vision for the funds is to create services to move addiction to a public health rather than a criminal issue.

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Denver city councilman, state lawmaker revive plans for safe injection site, in spite of federal law

Jennifer Brown

November 19, 2018 |

The Colorado Sun |

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Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

Denver lawmakers and activists are working to curb drug addiction and prevent overdose deaths with legislation and services. Despite federal illegality, local legislators want to legalize safe injection sites in the state. In the meantime, the Harm Reduction Action Center is a needle exchange group which has saved nearly 1,000 lives with naloxone.

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GPs could prescribe bingo and dancing after English trial's success

Robert Booth

November 18, 2018 |

The Guardian |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United Kingdom, London

Allowing doctors to refer patients to social activities and community programs eases workloads by reducing hospital admissions for non-medical issues. The practice of “community prescribing,” pioneered by a group of general practitioners in the London borough of Croydon, allows doctors to direct their patients to various programs and activities, ranging from financial planning and housing services, to volunteer-led dance sessions and fitness classes.

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So many innovations, little uptake to boost health

Aggrey Omboki

November 13, 2018 |

Nation Africa |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: Kenya

Medical innovations in maternal and child health could save thousands of lives in Africa if more governments adopted them. A Kenyan doctor with an international nonprofit that works to transform global health through innovation offers key examples such as oxytocin tablets that don't need refrigeration and can stop women bleeding to death after birth, dipsticks to detect pre-eclampsia and skilled birth attendants. These solutions can stop women and children dying from preventable causes.

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ONG en Guanacaste desafía la pobreza con anticonceptivos

Noelia Esquivel

November 03, 2018 |

La Voz de Guanacaste |

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Response Location: Costa Rica

Esta publicación narra cómo pueblo del norte de Costa Rica desafía la pobreza y el empeoramientos de las condiciones familiares gracias al anticonceptivo 'T de cobre'. Una organización distribuye e informa médicamente cómo funciona este mecanismo para evitar los embarazos no deseados en el seno de localidades donde la alimentación de hijos es un problema socioeconómico grave. El modelo está basado en el éxito de algunos lugares del estado norteamericano de Colorado, donde los embarazos en zonas que enfrentan pobreza disminuyeron en un 40%.

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Telemedicine a solution in counties starved of mental health care providers

Zachariah Bryan

November 02, 2018 |

The Western News |

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Response Location: United States, Montana

Telemedicine allows rural mental health patients access to doctors in a more frequent basis than if they had to travel to city centers for care. Though there are limits to telemedicine—it's preferable to see a doctor in person—it is preferable to get some care than none at all in between regular doctor visits.

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Hospitals help patients get out the vote while stuck in bed

Kristen de Groot

November 02, 2018 |

Associated Press |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Some hospitals are finding ways to help their patients vote. Penn Votes Project is an initiative between hospitals and the Penn Law School that helps patients fill out and notarize their absentee ballots. Then there’s Patientvoting.com where patients can find information on medical absentee voting by state. “Every citizen of the United States has the right to vote and we think getting ill shouldn’t impair that process.”

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