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Nearly four million women who’ve missed screening invitations will be offered free HPV self-testing swabs to complete at home, part of NHS England’s push to increase screening and eliminate cervical cancer entirely by 2040.
By sending doctors to small-town clinics for just one week at a time, Médecins Solidaires is helping to remedy the country’s “medical deserts.” From Reasons to Be Cheerful
Last Mile Health trains and pays community health workers who reach isolated villages in Liberia, Ethiopia, Malawi, and Sierra Leone, bringing basic medical care to communities that once had none. They have now received the world’s largest annual award to a nonprofit.
For four years, Carlota, a community health worker in Nawitela-Namuli, Mozambique, has built trust door to door. Through VillageReach’s Bate-Papo project, she helped bring the community its first mobile health brigade, closing the distance to routine childhood immunization.
Thirty years ago, Dr. Jim Withers began walking Pittsburgh’s alleys and bridges at night to treat people who would never make it to a clinic. His street medicine model has since spread to over 200 cities on six continents.
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