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An End to Polio in India?

Esha Chhabra

March 05, 2014 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: India, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh

India has, for years, been a hotbed of polio. Supported by the WHO as well as local health-care workers, immunizations have officially rid the country of the disease. There are still challenges in maintaining records and reaching everyone, but the message continously changes and adapts.

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Treating the Village to Cure the Disease

Jason Silverstein

November 06, 2013 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Togo

In communities across Africa, health workers are going house to house with medicine to combat lymphatic filariasis, which is the world’s second-largest cause of chronic disability. They are participating in a strategy called mass drug administration, which treats everyone in an area where a disease is found – even if they aren’t sick or infected.

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Lessons From America's Safest Hospitals

Beth Howard

April 01, 2013 |

AARP Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

An estimated 6,000 "never events" — egregious errors like operations on the wrong limb or instruments left inside a surgical wound — occur every month among Medicare patients alone. Hospitals across the country are revamping their care programs to stop preventable injuries and deaths.

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Saving Lives in a Time of Cholera

Tina Rosenberg

April 07, 2012 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Bangladesh, Dhaka, Dhaka Division

A cholera epidemic can kill many people or few people—it all depends on the expertise of the doctors and their access to the right equipment. A program in Dhaka rushes both to countries when an epidemic is just breaking out.

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In India, a Small Pill, With Positive Side Effects

Amy Yee

April 04, 2012 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: India, New Delhi, Delhi

In the developing world, intestinal worms stunt physical and mental growth, drain energy, and can inhibit school work for children. Deworm the World is a global campaign that lobbied the Delhi government to regularly distribute deworming pills to school children. The benefits decrease student absenteeism and increase cost-saving measures.

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Better Hand-Washing Through Technology

Tina Rosenberg

April 25, 2011 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Miami, Florida

Washing hands in between contact with patients is one of the most important things a healthcare worker can do to prevent the spread of disease and reduce the rise of superbugs like MRSA. A new technology is increasing rates of hand washing by displaying, via a sensor in an employee's badge, whether the healthcare provider has washed their hands recently.

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Fixing Hospitals

Robert Langreth

June 20, 2005 |

Forbes |

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Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

Medical errors kill 100,000 Americans every year. A new vanguard is out to fix the fatal flaws, mostly by evaluating processes and looking for points of breakdown or confusion.

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What the World Needs Now Is DDT

Tina Rosenberg

April 11, 2004 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: South Africa, Ndumu

DDT was banned in the United States in 1972 because of the harm it can cause to the natural environment when it is sprayed in mass quantities over large areas. However, spraying DDT on the walls inside of homes is the most effective way to prevent the spread of malaria in many African countries. Allowing African nations to use DDT for this purpose would save the lives of thousands of children who die each year from malaria.

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