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Facing the Future of HIV Care

Benjamin Ryan

August 04, 2011 |

POZ Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, District of Columbia

When health care funding was cut in the United States, HIV clinics were hit harder than some other areas, impacting not just the medicine, but also the staff in these facilities. The Whitman-Walker Clinic in the District of Columbia, however, found a way to combat these changes by broadening the range of people they were caring for and mimicking service providers that were qualified as federally qualified health centers.

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Slashing the Price of Health With Common Sense

David Bornstein

August 02, 2011 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro

Organizations are mobilizing volunteers in hospitals to connect low-income families with human services which address social factors like poor housing, nutrition, etc. so patients are able to work and thus afford healthier lives.

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Treating the Cause, Not the Illness

David Bornstein

July 28, 2011 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

The United States now has a variety of federally-supported nutrition programs, but the health care system remains disconnected from the social determinants of health. Many doctors simply lack the resources to provide the comprehensive care proven to have greater impact on health than strictly medical treatment. A group called Health Leads is training young volunteers to treat the social factors, like poor nutrition and housing needs.

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A Trade Barrier to Defeating AIDS

Tina Rosenberg

July 26, 2011 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: India

One-pill-a-day generic AIDS drugs for poor countries are hard to make because each ingredient is patented by a different pharmaceutical company. The Patent Pool provides a way for companies to donate their intellectual property safely.

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Helping New Drugs Out of Research's ‘Valley of Death'

David Bornstein

May 02, 2011 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Saratoga, California

Despite significant increases in funding and advances in biomedical research, the rates of new treatments and drugs for illnesses that reach the market every year have plummeted. A group called the Myelin Repair Foundation, along with several other foundations, uses an intensely goal-directed and collaborative method to tackle the bottleneck.

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A Housecall to Help With Doctor's Orders

Tina Rosenberg

February 28, 2011 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

The health problems of millions of Americans are directly related to patients' failure to follow doctors’ orders. Community health workers are increasingly successful in New York and other American cities – not to substitute for doctors, but to help patients stick to their treatment plans.

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What Makes Community Health Care Work?

Tina Rosenberg

February 18, 2011 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: India, Halgaon, Maharashtra

The second of two columns on how ordinary women trained to become their village doctors are making rural villages much healthier. Financial incentives, supporting workers, and encouraging cooperation from governments are just some of the strategies being implemented.

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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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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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