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  • When healers need help: Recovery programs for health care workers offer specialized care

    Centers like Brattleboro Retreat are emerging to provide specialized recovery programs for healthcare workers battling addiction. Programs offered are similar to those at standard recovery centers, except here healthcare workers are surrounded by their professional peers, allowing them to find community and express vulnerability.

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  • SPECIAL REPORT: Facing high wheat prices, Nigerian bakers turn to potato puree

    Bakers in Nigeria make bread with orange-fleshed sweet potatoes to help offset the growing cost of producing bread with just wheat flour.

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  • How Kwara Communities Stopped Drinking Contaminated Water From Same Source With Cows

    Two rural communities in rural Nigeria now have access to a solar-powered borehole that provides clean drinking water. The initiative has led to cleaner water and a reduction of ailments associated with the consumption of dirty water.

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  • Ward Development Committees: The Silver Lining To Primary Healthcare Delivery In Borno

    Ward Development Committees are working toward a polio-free state educating community members and linking them to useful information and access to routine immunization. Over the past two years, the Committees have seen an increase in immunization, particularly in rural communities, as well as a reduction in maternal and child mortality.

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  • In Jos, an initiative is using behavioural change communication to fight malaria

    Nigeria accounted for 31.8% of all malaria-related deaths globally in 2020. The Block Malaria Africa Initiative employs behavioral change communication to promote positive health outcomes by studying behavior and providing effective messages and materials that address each community’s needs to educate people on what malaria is and how it can be prevented.

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  • Could Cleaning the Tigris River Help Repair Iraq's Damaged Reputation?

    Baghdad resident Murtadha Al-Tameemi started organizing weekly clean ups at the banks of the Tigris river earlier this year, but it soon became a grassroots movement called Clean Iraq and encouraged residents to organize similar events across the country. In a place long-affected by war, it serves not just as an important effort and opportunity to save the river but to rebuild peace, cooperation, and a sense of normalcy.

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  • Rapid Diagnostic Test Is Helping Nigerians Fight Malaria, But There's A Problem

    With rapid diagnostic tests, Nigerians with malaria symptoms can get a quicker diagnosis at a lower cost, especially in regions where lab-based testing is not available. The tests have made it easier to get a diagnosis in places where malaria is prevalent, but many Nigerians still don't know the tests are an option or choose to self-medicate due to lack of trust in the local health system.

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  • Moving Through the City Can Be Dangerous for Indian Women. Can These Apps Help?

    The Woloo mobile app helps women locate and access clean and hygienic restrooms at restaurants and cafes. The app partners with 10,000 restaurants and cafes across 50 cities that allow women to use their restrooms free of charge. “Hygiene officers” from the app also evaluate the restrooms to ensure their clean and suitable for use. There are currently about 1,200 certified restrooms on the app and 30,000 users.

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  • Drinking water in short supply? There's a solution in the air.

    As governments and residents wrestle with drought and dwindling water supplies, atmospheric water generation systems are popping up throughout the United States as a way to convert air into water. One product, called WeDew, collects water droplets that are formed when warm air meets a cool surface. That water can be used to water plants or create safe drinking water. These air-to-water generators are being used in places from California to Uganda.

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  • How One Nigerian State Overcame Vaccine Hesitancy and Eradicated Polio

    Across Cross River, the government is partnering with traditional leaders, both chiefs and Muslim clerics, to build communication, trust, and acceptance of its polio vaccine program in local communities. The strategy has contributed to the fact that 900,000 children have received both sets of the vaccine and the state remains polio free.

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