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How Baltimore cut its infant mortality rate: Saving the Smallest

Brie Zeltner

December 11, 2015 |

Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

Since B'More for Healthy Babies launched in Baltimore in 2009, Baltimore's infant deaths have dropped by 24 percent, outstripping their home state's progress in the same period by a factor of three, and the nation's by four. Cleveland is at the beginning of its own plan to turn around decades of failure in preventing infant deaths.

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Baltimore's infant mortality efforts at work in poorest neighborhoods: Saving the Smallest

Brie Zeltner

December 11, 2015 |

Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

When Baltimore launched a citywide effort to reduce infant mortality in 2009 called B'More for Healthy Babies, Upton Druid Heights was a prime target. That effort has since cut down infant deaths in the city by 24 percent and led to a record low number of annual sleep-related infant deaths.

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Cleveland group prenatal care helps prevent infant mortality

Brie Zeltner

December 10, 2015 |

Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer) |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland's infant mortality rate is double the national average. Sugar Mamas is a local program based on the national CenteringPregnancy programs where pregnant women who have diabetes meet twice a month to discuss some of their concerns and support each other to deliver healthy babies. The model helps women become more knowledgeable and also have a support system.

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Latinos Live Longest Despite Poverty. Here's Their Secret

Jasmine Aguilera Yessenia Funes

December 08, 2015 |

Yes! Magazine |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, El Paso, Texas

U.S. Hispanics who pass down a tradition of food, family, and healing are healthier. But as generations become more assimilated, many are adjusting to less healthy diets and habits.

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Are These Women the Key to Safer Abortions in India?

Jill Filipovic

November 17, 2015 |

Cosmopolitan |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: India, Pune, Maharashtra

In rural areas in India, lack of physicians is a big barrier to safe abortions, leading women to undergo deadly procedures. A proposed law by the Indian government would allow midwives and mid-level providers to perform abortions.

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How newborn testing should work

Ellen Gabler

November 16, 2015 |

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Iowa

State-run newborn screening programs can vary widely by hospital, creating an inconsistent process and a dangerous environment for babies born with disorders. These six points address how screening should be done.

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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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Financial Health

Sowmiya Ashok

September 02, 2015 |

The Caravan |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Kenya

Kenya has an alarmingly high rate of maternal mortality rate and many women are afraid to give birth at the hospital for fear of being treated violently. OparanyaCare uses financial incentives to get women to seek prenatal, childbirth, and antenatal care at the hospital with trained healthcare workers.

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Training Midwives to Save Expectant Mothers in Chiapas

Denise Grady

August 31, 2015 |

The New York Times |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: Mexico, Chiapas

Through simple training and trust-building with their patients, midwives become more effective in Chiapas - and childbirth death rates drop.

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When a Boy's Life Is Worth More Than His Sister's

Valerie Hudson Andrew Den Boer

July 30, 2015 |

Foreign Policy |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: South Korea

Due to patrilineality, sons are highly favored over daughters in many countries, with serious consequence. South Korea, the only country to have returned to normal sex ratios after having a highly abnormal ratio of boys:girls, has lessons for other countries.

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