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TAKEheart: Training for Cardiac Rehabilitation Use

TAKEheart: Training for Cardiac Rehabilitation Use

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Million Hearts® established the goal of increasing cardiac rehabilitation for eligible patients from 20-30 percent in 2018 to 70 percent by 2022. Evidence shows that participation in cardiac rehabilitation reduces hospital readmissions by 25 percent,…
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Helping Farmers in Mali Develop Business, Weather a Political Crisis

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Mali might have seemed an unlikely place for farming innovations and new agribusiness approaches to take root because of its outdated farming technologies, limited access to credit, and political instability. Yet Abt Global, through…
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Agribusiness and Trade Promotion

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Food prices were rising in West Africa, particularly for imported food. In-country and international shipping costs also were climbing.  Could promoting food trade increase farm families’ incomes, helping ensure food security by increasing families’…
Expanding V-safe COVID-19 Vaccine Pregnancy Registry

Expanding V-safe COVID-19 Vaccine Pregnancy Registry

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COVID-19 may put pregnant women at risk for severe illness or death, but data are limited on the safety of COVID-19 vaccines for them. To monitor potential safety issues, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) created the v-safe COVID-19…
Increasing Male Cicumcision in Namibia

Increasing Male Circumcision in Namibia

Impact Brief
Namibia is expanding male circumcision to prevent AIDS with support from Pepfar and USAID.
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Building a Knowledge Base to Teach Adults to Decode

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Decoding is an essential skill to read words that a person may only have heard spoken. It is not just important for children. Millions of U.S. adults are non-literate or can perform only simple, literacy tasks. They need decoding skills, too—although…
HIV and Cervical Cancer: Screening Needs

HIV and Cervical Cancer: Screening Needs

Impact Brief
An Abt-led program in Mozambique helped increase the number of women with HIV who got screening for cervical cancer from 856 to 49,387 within a year.
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Assessing the Impacts of Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico

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The Deepwater Horizon disaster contaminated habitats across the northern Gulf of Mexico, including deep water corals, shallow bays, estuaries, coastal marshes and beaches. The spill affected wildlife ranging from birds to dolphins to sea turtles.  The…