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  • When federal health care falls short, tribes improvise

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    October 03, 2017 |

    The Gresham Outlook |

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    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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  • How Cervical ‘Selfies' are Fighting Cancer in The Gambia

    October 03, 2017 |

    BBC |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Gambia

    Cervical cancer has effective treatments, but it remains a leading cause of cancer deaths in sub-Saharan Africa. A new device can capture images of a woman’s cervix and send the images to a doctor for review. This expanded capacity to screen women for cancer is especially important in rural areas.

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  • How 'cervical selfies' can help save lives

    October 03, 2017 |

    BBC |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Under 3 Minutes

    Response Location: Gambia

    A new app and scope that attaches to a smartphone camera has the capability to photograph a woman's cervix in high definition and send the photo to clinicians for diagnosis. This device replaces previously very expensive machines that takes similar photos and allows clinics in remote or underserved areas to access the same level of care as patients with more access to healthcare. Additionally, the app stores all of these photos in its database and is actively developing its own diagnostic tools so that in the future, the app can even help physicians to diagnose cervical cancer.

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  • Syracuse doctor puts ER on front line of opioid epidemic

    September 26, 2017 |

    syracuse.com |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Syracuse, New York

    Dr. Ross Sullivan, an ER doctor at Upstate University Hospital is trained in addiction treatment and has created a program in the emergency room to get overdose patients Suboxone while they wait to be admitted into inpatient treatment. Most doctors are unable to prescribe Suboxone for more than 72 hours, and most rehab facilities don't have room to admit new patients within that time frame. This solution allows patients seeking treatment for opioid addiction to access the care they need while they wait for more extensive treatment.

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