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  • Long-Acting Contraception Makes Teen Pregnancy Rates Plummet. So Why Are Some Women Still Skeptical?

    Dani McClain

    October 28, 2015 |

    The Nation (New York) |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

    Historically, decisions to make birth-control methods affordable to low-income women have ignored women's reproductive rights and discriminated against minorities. A counseling model that explicitly focuses on a woman’s preferences could be used to overcome latent bias.

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  • Talking Early About How Life Should End

    Tina Rosenberg

    October 27, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, La Crosse, Wisconsin

    Few Americans talk about their end-of-life wishes. To encourage these conversations, Medicare has decided to reimburse doctors for the time they spend helping families decide end-of-life wishes. In Wisconsin, a program trained nurses to have these conversations when doctors are too busy.

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  • A Family Matter: Saving Papua New Guinea's mothers

    Alex Finn

    October 25, 2015 |

    Al Jazeera |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Papua New Guinea

    A doctor in Papua New Guinea finds that involving men in family planning is the key to reducing maternal mortality.

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  • Free health care for unauthorised immigrants in LA

    Sonia Narang

    October 23, 2015 |

    BBC |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Los Angeles has a new model for affordable health care aimed at the 400,000 immigrants in the area without legal status or insurance. But not everyone agrees taxpayer money should fund the program.

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  • This Solution To Poverty In Slums Needs To Be Rapidly Replicated

    Devin Thorpe

    October 21, 2015 |

    Forbes |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: South Africa, Port Elizabeth

    In South Africa, the extreme gap between rich and poor is the root cause of cyclical poverty, and those living in slums face particularly high barriers to education, healthcare, and quality of life. The Ubuntu Education Fund is using a comprehensive approach that includes sustainable investment in community leadership and infrastructure, a cradle-to-career household stability service, and a dexterous, community oriented approach to helping break the cycle of poverty.

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  • San Francisco Is Changing Face of AIDS Treatment

    Donald G. McNeil Jr.

    October 05, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    The H.I.V. infection rate in San Francisco dropped drastically after the city increased testing and created programs like Rapid, which immediately offer public health insurance, antiretroviral drugs, and personal counselors for people with AIDS.

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  • How Tompkins clinic gets veterans health care right

    Melissa Whitworth

    October 03, 2015 |

    The Ithaca Voice |

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    Response Location: United States, Freeville, New York

    Nationally, the VA has been plagued by reports of long wait times, neglect, and other failures, but clinics in New York's Tompkins County are bucking that trend. The Freeville Clinic, and others in the county, never turn away a veteran, offer specialized teams for each patient, and have tele-health options to ensure that their services are accessible.

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  • Reducing emergency room use by targeting 'super utilizers'

    Meredith Cohn

    September 29, 2015 |

    The Baltimore Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Residents who use a disproportionate amount of health care, or super utilizers, are a high cost for the system. A hospital in Baltimore is following the example of other hospitals and focusing on the underlying problems of super utilizers to reduce emergencies and save costs.

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  • Doctor slashes the cost of surgeries for India's poor

    Fred de Sam Lazaro

    September 16, 2015 |

    PBS NewsHour |

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    Response Location: India, Bengaluru, Karnataka

    In a country where millions of citizens make less than $2 a day, a chain of hospitals has brought down the prices of life-saving surgeries and pioneered a health insurance plan that is just 11 cents a month. These hospitals, called Narayana Health Systems, are exemplified by their productivity, efficiency and volume of surgeries performed, far outstripping the rates of American hospitals. To prove that the same model could work in a developed country, the hospitals opened a location in the Cayman Islands, which proved to be vastly successful and offered hope that this model could continue to spread.

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  • The Brave Young Doctors of Sierra Leone

    Amy Maxmen

    September 16, 2015 |

    PBS NOVA |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Sierra Leone, Freetown, Western Area

    King’s Partnership and Partners in Health are outliers in the global health community in focusing on the mentorship of Sierra Leone’s next generation of doctors. The country has a profound need for more medical experts.

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