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Villages Without Doctors

Tina Rosenberg

February 14, 2011 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: India, Halgaon, Maharashtra

Many health professionals choose to not live in poor, rural areas that lack access to healthcare. The Society for Education, Action, and Research in Community Health, and the Comprehensive Rural Health Project are training local women in rural parts of India to fill this gap. These women visit families in their community and offer services like education on breastfeeding to new mothers and vaccinations to children.

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Making the Text-to-Mom Connection

David Bornstein

February 11, 2011 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Text4baby is a free service that sends text messages to pregnant women, and new mothers to provide them with useful tips to keep themselves and their babies healthy. This solution involves many different types of organizations such as for-profit health care providers, nonprofit community groups, wireless carriers, and government agencies. This program shows how you get a country — with all its diverse institutional strengths — to work as a team.

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Mothers-to-Be Are Getting the Message

David Bornstein

February 07, 2011 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Martinsville, Virginia

An average of 28,000 children born in the U.S. each year die before their first birthday – and many more face disabilities and serious life-long health problems, often because they are born prematurely or at low birth weights. A free service, text4baby, delivers crucial health advice via text message to pregnant women and new mothers.

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Pickups Mobilize Bolivia's Maternal Healthcare

Jean Friedman-Rudovsky

December 28, 2010 |

Women's eNews |

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Response Location: Bolivia, La Paz

Mobile health units are rolling clinicians into remote parts of Bolivia and helping to lower one of the world's worst rates of maternal mortality. Reporting costs for this story were partially funded by International Planned Parenthood.

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Spreading the Care

Tina Rosenberg

December 17, 2010 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Malawi, Lilongwe, Central Region

Hospitals in Bogota are saving premature babies through the cheap and accessible kangaroo care, where mothers wear their newborns on their chest. A foundation has been transplanting the concept to other hospitals internationally through training programs.

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The Human Incubator

Tina Rosenberg

December 13, 2010 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Colombia, Bogotá

A shortage of incubators in a Bogota hospital was causing rampant infections among newborns. Kangaroo care, a system where the infant's mother is employed as a human incubator, was created and solved the shortage problem.

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The Baby Brain Connection / Armed with new research on developing brain structure, social workers can help fix troubled baby/parent relationships

Rob Waters

November 14, 2004 |

SFGate |

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Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

Research has shown the importance of infant-primary caregiver attachment for the future of the child's cognitive ability, emotional health, and parent relationship. Infant Mental Health Specialists and other practitioners have emphasized programs and techniques to improve this relationship, for example infant massage classes, and specifically tailored interventions.

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