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My husband is HIV-positive while I'm negative, but our love remains strong

Angela Oketch

November 30, 2021 |

Nation Africa |

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Response Location: Kenya

Public hospitals across Kenya offer Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PreP), pills for free to people who are HIV negative but are with HIV positive partners, as long as that person has an undetectable viral load. In Siaya County alone, 84,000 people are receiving the pills, which must be taken daily, and it has significantly reduced the HIV incidence there. Counseling and educational outreach are also part of the public health campaign to stop the spread of HIV to those without the virus and their future offspring.

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Makala Ya Jinsi Sekta Ya Aya Ilivyoimarika Baada Ya Ugatuzi Kwale

Ali Nariri

November 30, 2021 |

RadioRahma |

Radio |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: Kenya

Ujio wa ugatuzi umepunguza changamoto zinazoandamana na safari za mbali kutafta huduma za afya katika Kaunti ya Kwale. Kupitia mfumo hii, serikali ya kaunti imeweza kutenga fedha za kujenga zaid ya vituo vya afya 37 katika maeneo mbali mbali na kurahisisha jinsi wakaaji wanapata huduma za afya. Vituo hivyo vinapeana huduma mbali mbali za afya ikiwemo huduma za kujifungua, madawa na maabara na kadhalika.

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Saving Lives through Safe and Post Abortion Care amongst Urban Young Women

Hasifah Namuli

November 12, 2021 |

Metro FM 90.8 |

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Response Location: Uganda

Better Reproductive Health, Better Communities Project is a partnership between nonprofits and medical providers working to increase awareness about unintended pregnancies and unsafe abortions, while also ensuring women have better access to high-quality post-abortion care. The project has focused on providing family planning and emergency contraception to women in low-income urban areas. Volunteer peer educators and social media has helped reach over 4,000 women, spreading information about sexual and reproductive health services and connecting women to quality abortion care.

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How Baltimore Escaped the Worst of Covid-19

Michael Ollove

November 01, 2021 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

The city of Baltimore escaped the worst of COVID-19 with high vaccination rates, high rates of health coverage, and strong support from political leaders who cooperated across ideological lines. Medicaid expansion helped achieve relatively high health insurance rates. Officials were also a bit more and cautious in reopening businesses and schools and relaxing mask requirements. The city didn’t escape the death and illness seen during the pandemic, but for these reasons it fared better than comparable areas.

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REACH: Taking Quality Healthcare to Communities in Kano State

Bashar Abubakar

November 01, 2021 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

REACH (“Reaching Everyone with Accessible Community Health”) provides preventive and curative healthcare through a community-based health insurance initiative that offers different packages of care. Community members pay a monthly fee for the insurance, which gives them access to treatment for all ailments including prescription medicines. About 11,000 people are served locally by 22 community health workers but are referred to health clinics and hospitals for more serious issues. Partnerships with pharmaceutical companies and the nonprofit arm of a local clinic helps make treatment costs affordable.

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¿Hay un cáncer 100% prevenible? Si, el de cérvix

Mónica Quesada Cordero

October 29, 2021 |

El Colectivo 506 |

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Response Location: Costa Rica

El sistema de salud de Costa Rica ha implementado un programas de tamizaje para el cáncer de cervix que le han permitido disminuir los casos de cáncer avanzado que detectan y así disminuir la mortalidad pro este cancer. El país tiene de los índices más bajos de latinoamérica de mortalidad y de los más altos de supervivencia.

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Is Abiyamo Scheme To The Rescue For Ondo Women After Abiye's Exit?

Shola Ilesanmi

October 29, 2021 |

The Precision NG |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Ondo

The Abiyamo Maternal and Child Health Insurance Scheme provides free maternal and early childhood care, including hospital deliveries, to improve maternal and childhood survival rates. The government made a budgetary provision to guarantee annual funds, ensuring the program will last beyond the current administration. Traditional birth attendants are paid for every woman they refer to a hospital and hospitals are paid via a lump sum or fee-for-service model. Media campaigns and engagement with local stakeholders have helped increase hospital deliveries and while giving women free high-quality care.

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¿Sabía que morir del cáncer colorrectal es casi 100% prevenible?

Mónica Quesada Cordero

October 22, 2021 |

El Colectivo 506 |

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Response Location: Costa Rica

Un programa de tamizaje organizado para cáncer colorrectal en el sistema de salud de Costa Rica está mostrando resultados positivos en la prevención y detección temprana de este cáncer, lo que permitierá escalarlo aun tamizaje generalizado en el país.

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‘I understand your concern': Sedgwick County's COVID Ambassador program beats back vaccine hesitancy

Celia Hack

October 21, 2021 |

The Wichita Beacon |

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Response Location: United States, Sedgwick County, Kansas

The COVID Ambassador program trains people to listen, be empathetic, and acknowledge people’s COVID-19 vaccine concerns. Ambassadors’ training includes substantial practice talking to people who are resistant to getting vaccinated and they receive ongoing support at bi-monthly meetings, which has increased their confidence and led to more conversations with community members hesitant to get vaccinated. Like other community health worker programs, the ambassador program’s ability to be successful relies on the idea that people trust information from their peers more than from the government.

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Biden's $400B plan to overhaul home care is 'more of a repair effort than a new direction'

Sarah Taddeo

October 19, 2021 |

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |

Multi-Media |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, New York

Several government programs and funding measures are emerging to improve home care options for families in need, such as increasing wages and benefit opportunities for providers. There are also nonprofits like All Things Home Care that provide transportation to area home care workers and represents its workers with a union to afford them better treatment to ensure those in need can still receive necessary care at home.

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