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  • To save lives, midwives mix Mayan heritage with Western medicine

    Indigenous midwives in rural areas of Guatemala help pregnant women with limited access to healthcare give birth in an effort to prevent maternal and infant deaths.

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  • Saving mothers and babies is a thankless task

    Female community health workers, or Ashas, are the link between the healthcare system and pregnant women in rural areas of India. Among many other tasks, Ashas provide maternal healthcare education, look after pregnant woman, and refer women at risk to hospitals with better facilities to give birth.

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  • North Carolina's Latino residents are more vaccinated than the non-hispanic population

    Hispanic residents in North Carolina went from having one of the lowest vaccination rates to one of the highest. The health department ran bilingual ads on a variety of media types, including social media and held virtual town halls and Facebook Live events. They also paid community health workers in each county to use their existing relationships with Latino residents and improve access to information about the vaccine and to the vaccine itself. Outreach from trusted ambassadors has proven more effective among communities that have deep mistrust of institutionalized structures.

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  • Nutrition Interventions Securing Livelihoods in Hard-to-Reach Areas of Borno

    Doctors Without Borders treats malnutrition in areas of Nigeria facing food shortages due to violence and insurgency. When safe, it runs a mobile clinic to provide basic health care, including nutritional support, particularly to children. When communities are not safe enough to enter, the organization trains community members in basic patient care and provides them the tools to run basic tests and treat malnutrition. Community health workers are also trained to treat patients, dispense medications, and educate caregivers about child nutrition.

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  • More than goodwill: New tactics used to attract new healthcare talent as shortages grow

    An initiative to draw more people to entry-level healthcare professions is seeing success in Ohio. A collaboration of healthcare employers is training and promoting employees to “strengthen the healthcare employee pipeline.”

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