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  • Displaced but not forgotten: Organisations delivering family planning services to Abuja's IDP camps

    February 02, 2021 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    The Covid-19 pandemic complicated health care for women living in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in Nigeria who already lacked access to family planning services and education, but collaborative efforts are working to change this. Through collective action, a group of non-profits worked together to create a one-day outreach event that provided education and trained community members to carry on the work.

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  • South Korea's COVID Success Stems From an Earlier Infectious Disease Failure

    January 29, 2021 |

    Slate |

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    Response Location: South Korea

    Having learned from a failed response to Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS), the South Korea government and health officials enacted a proactive and effective strategy to contain the spread of 'Covid-19. Relying on better information control as well as technological advancements that aided contact tracing and quarantine protocols, the country has seen only seen 2.67 deaths per 100,000 people thus far.

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  • How West Virginia became the nation's leader in COVID-19 vaccine distribution

    January 28, 2021 |

    WCHS-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, West Virginia

    West Virginia relied on strategic partnerships, collaboration, and efficient use of medicine to successfully outpace every other state in the U.S. in COVID-19 vaccine distribution. Rather than turning to nationally-run chain pharmacies to disseminate the vaccine, the state partnered with local pharmacies to better reach long-term care facilities and collaborated with the West Virginia National Guard to overcome logistical barriers.

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  • How Promotoras De Salud Are Fighting Vaccine Conspiracies In Chicago's Latino Communities

    January 26, 2021 |

    WBEZ |

    Multi-Media |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Promotoras de salud, also known as community health workers, are helping to connect Latino immigrants with reliable and factual information about COVID-19. Using a peer-to-peer outreach model, a team of seven promotoras de salud from Centro San Bonifacio have "interacted with more than 4,000 Spanish speakers in Chicago."

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  • Black people no longer disproportionately affected by COVID-19 in Flint, health officials say

    January 17, 2021 |

    Flint Beat |

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    Response Location: United States, Flint, Michigan

    At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, public health officials in Flint, Michigan began tracking the demographics of those who were testing positive for the virus in order to better align the county's public health action and outreach. In doing so, officials realized that a lack of access to testing in predominately Black neighborhoods was a contributing factor and decided to launch mobile testing, barrier-free sites, and other interventions at the state level.

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  • How British Scientists Found the More Infectious Coronavirus Variant

    January 16, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, Cambridge

    In March when fewer than 100 coronavirus infections had been found in the U.K, researchers in Cambridge decided to begin sequencing coronavirus samples as part of an "unparalleled surveillance system for Covid" that could identify and track possible mutations or the virus. This effort – which involves labs sending leftover material from testing swabs to the researcher's genomics lab where they are stored and analyzed – has culminated in hundreds of thousands of genome sequences and "sounded an alarm for the world" about the new fast-spreading variant.

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  • How 'emancipatory sex-ed' can help prevent rape

    January 14, 2021 |

    Maclean's Magazine |

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    Response Location: Canada, Windsor, Ontario

    Flip the Script is a course that teaches rape prevention without the usual blame-the-victim undertones. While teaching college-age women to assess and avoid risks, it places the responsibility squarely on the people who rape, not on women's behavior. The approach, also called Enhanced Assess, Acknowledge, Act Sexual Assault Resistance Program (EAAA) is sex-positive, encouraging women to think about their own pleasure as much as guarding against victimization. It has been shown to reduce rape and lower women's feelings of self-blame.

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  • The simple reason West Virginia leads the nation in vaccinating nursing home residents

    January 14, 2021 |

    The Conversation |

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    Response Location: United States, West Virginia

    Most states in the U.S. are struggling to effectively and efficiently distribute the COVID-19 vaccine, while "West Virginia became the first state to finish round one of the two-dose vaccine series in nursing homes." The key to the state's success included preemptively preparing a vaccination dissemination plan and partnering with independent and chain pharmacies.

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  • An Algorithm Is Helping a Community Detect Lead Pipes

    January 14, 2021 |

    Wired |

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    Response Location: United States, Flint, Michigan

    BlueConduit, an analytics startup, applies statistical models to identify neighborhoods and households that might have lead pipes. The models include dozens of factors, such as the age of the home and proximity of other homes where lead has been found, to help predict likely locations of lead pipes and create a ranking by likelihood that cities can use to prioritize which pipes to examine. In Flint, MI, about 70% of the homes identified using the models had lead pipes, compared to about 15% of homes where excavations did not use the model. The company is working with organizations in dozens of other cities.

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  • Barbershops in Black communities provide information on COVID-19, vaccine

    January 12, 2021 |

    ABC News (American Broadcasting Company) |

    Broadcast TV News |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Silver Spring, Maryland

    In an effort to help get accurate information to the communities who are being disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, a program called Live Chair Health has started to train barbers "on chronic issues that disproportionately affect Black communities" and teach them "how to have conversations with their clients about the diseases." Aside from providing COVID-19 information, the initiative has helped patrons access primary care and address other medical issues such as high blood pressure.

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