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In Zimbabwe, ‘Grandmothers' on Benches Help Fight Depression

Sally Nyakanyanga

November 03, 2017 |

News Deeply |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Zimbabwe, Harare

Mental health care is often overlooked in Zimbabwe even though depression is prevalent. The Friendship Bench Project involves benches located by clinics where individuals can come speak to older female counselors about their struggles.

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For Karachi's poorest patients, this hospital makes high-quality care accessible

Fred de Sam Lazaro

November 02, 2017 |

PBS NewsHour |

Broadcast TV Programs |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: Pakistan, Karachi

In Karachi, Pakistan’s Jinnah hospital, a private-public partnership between the government and the business sector have brought in over $35 million in donations. Those donations have led to new equipment, buildings, and systems infrastructure to make sure the patients – nearly 5,000 per day – are receiving modern medical care. While the partnership is underscored by the risk of one party backing out, both sides have clear roles and responsibilities to make sure the regions residents receive the care they need.

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Acupuncture for pain: Ancient medicine may hold the key to solving the opioid epidemic

Corrina Pysa

October 31, 2017 |

WEWS-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

Under 3 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

With the growing opioid crisis, patients and doctors are looking for alternative ways to treat pain. Acupuncture is becoming more popular for its relief of migraines and pain.

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When federal health care falls short, tribes improvise

Ed Williams

October 27, 2017 |

KUNM |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, New Mexico

Indian Health Service, the Native American Health federal agency, has not always been an ideal health program due to lack of funding and lack of flexibility to each tribe. More tribes are opening their own clinics in order to tailor health care to their needs and create more jobs, or taking over the behavioural health programs only.

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New York borrows a health care idea from Africa

Joanne Kenen

October 25, 2017 |

Politico |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Harlem, New York

A community-focused health care program in Harlem, New York helps connect local residents with people from their own community – known as "health coaches" – who can help address their health concerns. Doctors from local hospitals have reported that this type of program "unburdens" them, and that the "hands-on, person-to-person connection" is crucial for determining underlying reasons for health problems.

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Hair stylists, barbers tackle St. Louis' STD problem

Blythe Bernhard

October 19, 2017 |

St. Louis Post-Dispatch |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis has one of the highest rates of STDs and HIV in the state, but the city's Health Department has implemented a creative method for providing safe sex education and testing. The staff at salons and barber shops - who are trusted community members and serve to provide all manner of relevant information to their patrons - leverage key health resources to those populations that need them most.

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Small town tries solving its own problems

Jessica Priest

October 10, 2017 |

The Victoria Advocate |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Palacios, Texas

When one community decided it was time to seek chance in public discourse, they didn't look for guidance at the national level, but instead asked, "What are the best ways that we can solve this ourselves?" Although still restricted with limited sources, community members across industries in Palacios, Texas are continuously coming together in order to enact change.

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Rugged Tablets for African Schools

Angela Saini

October 08, 2017 |

BBC |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi

This podcast episode covers 3 entrepreneurial solutions in India and Kenya, and 2 of them have already started seeing very positive results. The first is a rugged tablet named Kio Kits loaded with educational software that are made especially for the climate and electricity availability in Kenya; students and teachers vouch for its efficacy. In Assam, India, where there is very little access to eye care, mobile eye care clinics offer a range of services that are all free of cost to their patients. The clinics have tried a number of strategies to reach patients in need and the results have been impactful.

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As Cancer Tears Through Africa, Drug Makers Draw Up a Battle Plan

Donald G. McNeil Jr.

October 07, 2017 |

The New York Times |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi

Two major pharmaceutical companies are offering discount cancer drugs in some African countries in an initiative modeled on the aids campaign. In African countries access to cancer treatment is scarce due to high prices of medicine, lack of medical staff and equipment and lack of awareness about the disease among the population; leading to higher death rates than in the developed world. The partnership to combat this also includes the American Cancer Society and IBM who are working to simplify cancer treatment guidelines and to make them available as an online tool to any hospital with an internet connection

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Dentists take bite out of opioid epidemic

Zane Sparling

October 03, 2017 |

The Gresham Outlook |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

Dentists in Multnomah County, Oregon are helping to prevent "doctor shopping", where addicts attempt to get prescriptions from multiple providers. They are doing this by checking a national database that lists all of a patient's current prescriptions, and not prescribing refills on opiate prescriptions without a follow-up visit. This effort has drastically reduced the number of overall prescriptions written, and replaced those drugs with ibuprofen and tylenol, which are both proven to be more effective in relieving acute pain.

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