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  • Malaria Prevention, With Both Reward and Risk

    Amy Maxmen

    June 25, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Mali, Bamako, Koulikoro

    After ongoing trials and successes for preventative measures toward malaria, experts have now reversed their support for them. In what remains an ongoing threat, especially to children, new interventions, like the combination of multiple malaria drugs, are being tried, tested, and showing promise.

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  • The Abstinence Method

    Maryn McKenna

    June 17, 2014 |

    Modern Farmer |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Beers

    Dutch farmers are saying no to antibiotics for livestock. The Netherlands is in the midst of a high-stakes, government-mandated experiment: Can large-scale meat production succeed without routine use of antibiotics?

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  • The Power to Cure, Multiplied

    David Bornstein

    June 11, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New Mexico

    Project ECHO - driven by a single doctor with a cause - pulled together a team of specialists to develop a model that combines technology with collaborative care and careful patient tracking to help cure for diseases spread to patients around the world through community healthcare agents, as opposed to only specialty centers. This kind of "disruptive innovation" is effectively working to demonopolize health care knowledge and access, and lends to a health system capable of meeting today’s soaring demands for care.

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  • The Fight Against Fake Drugs

    Tina Rosenberg

    June 04, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    In many poor countries, counterfeit medicines are an enormous problem. A quarter-million malaria deaths each year might be prevented if the patients were treated with real drugs instead of fake ones.

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  • HIV: The Power of Positive Thinking

    Kate Hilpern

    April 15, 2014 |

    The Independent |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, London

    Lisa is one of hundreds of children living in the UK who has lived with HIV her whole life - part of a singular generation born in the 90's, when mother-to-child transmission couldn’t be prevented, but HIV positive babies could survive. The stigmas and challenges faced by this generation are unique, but organizations like CHIVA (Children's HIV Association) are helping to empower them to feel accepted and in control of their lives through activities such as a summer camp that builds community. Lisa now runs workshops for other HIV+ children.

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  • Twenty Buses a Day: The High Stakes Race to Create a Global Cholera Early Warning System

    Osha Gray Davidson

    March 18, 2014 |

    Earthzine |

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    Response Location: Switzerland, Geneva

    Though individual treatments are cheap, cholera is costing the third world countless lives. Using modern technology, researchers work to exterminate it and other curable diseases.

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  • An ointment could save up to half a million newborns a year­ – and it costs 20 cents

    Sonia Narang

    March 17, 2014 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: Nepal, Kathmandu, Central Region

    Studies show that a single application of the antiseptic chlorhexidine, an affordable medicine, can reduce the risk of death among newborns by about 25 percent. In Nepal, where 20,000 newborns die every year, the medicine has revolutionary potential.

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  • The Secret To Polio Eradication In India

    Devin Thorpe

    March 15, 2014 |

    Forbes |

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    Response Location: India, New Delhi

    Population scale and density, insanitary conditions, and malnourishment meant that eradicating polio in India was a tall order. The government, alongside WHO, managed to do it in 2014 using a comprehensive approach.

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  • An End to Polio in India?

    Esha Chhabra

    March 05, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: India, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh

    India has, for years, been a hotbed of polio. Supported by the WHO as well as local health-care workers, immunizations have officially rid the country of the disease. There are still challenges in maintaining records and reaching everyone, but the message continously changes and adapts.

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  • Strung out in Tanzania

    Sarika Bansal

    March 03, 2014 |

    Al Jazeera |

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    Response Location: Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam

    Less than 1 percent of drug addicts in Africa receive treatment because the issue is disfavored by donors. The national government of Tanzania demanded evidence-based treatment options and is curbing relapses by distributing a drug which temporarily lessens cravings.

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