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  • With law enforcement sparse, Alaska villages build network of safety for survivors

    November 29, 2023 |

    Alaska Beacon |

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    Response Location: United States, Emmonak, Alaska

    Amidst a lack of law enforcement in remote areas, the Emmonak Women’s Shelter has begun training people in small villages to become victim resource advocates to connect those who have experienced domestic violence or sexual assault with shelter and care.

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  • The mobile clinic helping indigent Nigerians stay alive

    November 24, 2023 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    To enhance rural access to healthcare in Nigeria, the Parkers Mobile Clinic partners with local volunteers, healthcare professionals, educators, and community development advocates to identify and remedy unique healthcare gaps. Outreach programs are then designed to provide localized mental health support, nutritional counseling, and other reproductive health services.

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  • This Nigerian's campaign for the HPV jab is a fight against more than cancer

    November 23, 2023 |

    Vaccines Work |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Maiduguri, Borno State

    To increase awareness of cervical cancer and the cancer-preventing HPV vaccine, Al-Ansar radio shares information about the disease, the vaccine and works to dispel speculation and misinformation about vaccines in general to those in underserved and hard-to-reach areas, as they’re often hardest to get vaccinated.

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  • Niger girls learn about menstruation to stay in school, tackle stigma

    October 21, 2023 |

    Daily Nigerian |

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    Response Location: Niger

    In Niger, an initiative challenging menstrual stigma is promoting knowledge and hygiene through community engagement and mentorship. Since 2019, the foundation has reached over 20 schools, 35 communities, more than 3,000 women and girls.

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  • Medical aid from Minnesota offers a lifeline to Somaliland's poor

    October 16, 2023 |

    Sahan Journal |

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    Response Location: United States, Minnesota

    A pair of doctors are working to make healthcare more accessible and affordable by training area hospitals to use new technology, like ultrasound devices, to detect non-communicable diseases. Through their newly established non-communicable disease clinic staffed with personnel trained to provide more precise medical care, about 1,100 patients have been cared for.

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  • Doctors from Mexico help meet the need of some patients in the Central Valley

    October 09, 2023 |

    The Fresno Bee |

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    Response Location: United States, Tehama County, California

    Mexico's Pilot Program for Licensed Physicians brings Mexican doctors to the states to address the lack of culturally relevant healthcare and Spanish-speaking healthcare providers, particularly in rural areas with large immigrant populations. Currently, the program has 30 Mexican doctors working in various counties throughout the state.

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  • Trauma to triumph: ASHA helping women overcome depression in India

    October 09, 2023 |

    Devex |

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    Response Location: India

    To help provide rural access to mental health care in India, ASHAs (appointed female healthcare workers) work in their local communities to identify and support women in need. By providing free listening and support services in addition to their medical care, ASHAs have helped thousands of impoverished women recover from depression.

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  • How Colorado training programs aim to cut mental health care stigma among farmers and ranchers

    October 03, 2023 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    The Colorado Agricultural Addiction and Mental Health Program (CAAMHP) works to make mental health care more accessible by offering residents six free counseling sessions with licensed behavioral health professionals who have completed culturally relevant training in order to better connect with farmers and ranchers facing mental health issues. So far more than 30 clinicians have completed the training and there are about 15 therapists working with CAAMHP, helping to provide care and reduce stigma surrounding mental health in the farm and ranch industry.

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  • Social Business Profile: Saving 9 – the first aid pioneers in Pakistan

    September 15, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Pakistan, Pind Begwal

    Saving 9 bridges the gaps between rural areas and emergency medical care by providing essential training to locals, transforming them into medical personnel. Saving 9 also has an ambulance that connects rural villages to medical facilities in the capital city and also offers a female-led ambulance service to provide culturally sensitive care to women in more conservative, rural communities. Since forming in 2017, Saving 9 has saved more than 900 lives.

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  • Delivering Addresses (and Access) to the Navajo Nation

    August 25, 2023 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Navajo Mountain, Utah

    The Rural Utah Project is working to connect rural, off-the-grid residents in Navajo Mountain with fundamental services like mail, emergency medical care and voter access that they were often denied due to lacking a formally recognized address. Google’s Plus Code tool is allowing simple 10-digit codes to be generated anywhere in the world and instantly located on Google Maps. The codes can easily be looked up and doubles as a formal address in most cases.

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