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  • How Indian health-care workers use WhatsApp to save pregnant women

    February 03, 2023 |

    MIT Technology Review |

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    Response Location: India, Ganeshwadi Village, Maharashtra

    Accredited social health activists (ASHA) travel throughout Indian villages to combat medical misinformation — specifically among pregnant people — and make public healthcare more accessible. ASHAs connects with over 60% of the women in the villages she serves via WhatsApp, sharing educational videos to avoid the harmful effects of misinformation. As a result, ASHAs have had a massive impact on maternal mortality rates. In 2006, the maternal mortality rate was 254 deaths per 100,000 live births, but in 2020 it dropped to 96 per 100,000 births.

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  • Tackling Nigeria's Medication Management Challenges of Access and Adherence

    February 03, 2023 |

    HealthNews.ng |

    Multi-Media |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: Nigeria

    Famasi is a digital medication management platform that obtains a patient’s medication history and creates an individual care plan. The care plan includes a specialist who tracks drug use and side effects and also ensures medication is delivered to patients’ doors on a monthly basis. Because Famasi is available on mobile apps, patients can also track their medications and appointments from the comfort of their homes, which increases medication access, especially for those who struggle to make it to in-person care centers.

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  • Health Beat #4 | Can the NHI fix SA's rural doctor dilemma?

    January 11, 2023 |

    Bhekisisa |

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    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: South Africa

    The Umthombo Youth Development Foundation helps to produce rural healthcare workers by helping students from rural schools enter the health field, getting work in hospitals from the areas where they grew up. The Foundation has produced 528 healthcare professionals, working across 16 different disciplines.

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  • As assisted dying broadens, countries wrestle with new ethical lines

    January 10, 2023 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Canada

    Despite differing opinions and moral and ethical boundaries among voters and residents, access to euthanasia, or assisted dying, is expanding. Worldwide, there are currently 25 jurisdictions that allow some form of assisted dying, including 10 countries, 11 U.S. states, and four Australian states, with access and regulations varying by region.

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  • Many ERs offer minimal care for miscarriage. One group wants that to change

    January 04, 2023 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Indianapolis, Indiana

    TEAMM Project — short for Training, Education and Advocacy in Miscarriage Management — is a nonprofit that hosts workshops for healthcare providers in more than 100 sites in 19 states on everything they need to know about miscarriage care. Miscarriage care is often lacking in emergency rooms, which can be dangerous for the person having a miscarriage. To remedy this, TEAMM Project educates and advocates for the use of manual vacuum aspiration kits, training providers on how to use them.

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  • Hospitals look to storytelling to reduce stigma toward people with addiction

    January 04, 2023 |

    WSIU |

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    Response Location: United States, Indianapolis, Indiana

    The theater company Summit Performance Indianapolis collects stories from people experiencing substance use and addiction and then turns those stories into monologues that are performed by professional actors and filmed for audiences of healthcare professionals. The monologues show the diversity of people’s experiences with substance use and aim to help healthcare providers better relate to people with substance use disorders to decrease stigma and bias and improve the quality of care patients receive.

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  • This Drug Saves Lives. Why Weren't Hospitals Giving It To Patients?

    January 04, 2023 |

    Direct Relief |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    The Colorado Naloxone Project works to make naloxone easier to obtain for those who abuse opioids and campaigns to make access to naloxone the standard of care. Since forming in 2018, the group has signed up 108 hospitals and emergency departments across the state. They have also partnered with schools, clubs, and other community-based organizations to increase naloxone distribution points and are working on plans to continue expanding their reach.

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  • Non-Profit Works to Reduce Maternal and Child Mortality

    December 30, 2022 |

    Nigeria Info FM |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

    The Center for Human Rights and Civic Education launched an outreach program that aims to improve maternal and child healthcare by spreading information on the importance of antenatal sessions and care. The nonprofit also has a weekly radio program to further spread information about this important care. The program started in 2017 and has since held 28 outreach events with healthcare providers and community members.

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  • Maternal deaths in the U.S. are staggeringly common. Personal nurses could help

    December 27, 2022 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Upper Darby, Pennsylvania

    The Nurse-Family Partnership pairs low-income, first-time parents with a personal nurse from pregnancy through their child's second birthday. The Partnership serves 56,000 families each year, and works to help improve pregnancy outcomes for both parents and their babies through early education, access to care and helping to empower parents to get the care they need.

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  • Building community against cancer: When it comes to terminal illnesses, mental health comes first

    December 22, 2022 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

    Project Pink Blue provides psychological support, cancer awareness education, free cancer screenings, and fundraising for cancer patients and cancer research. The nonprofit has also trained healthcare workers through its Breast Cancer Navigation Program to ensure they know how to properly treat patients. So far they’ve trained 44 healthcare workers and they also run a support group of about 150 members to connect people impacted by cancer.

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