Rural
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Patients often have to travel long distances to get to their nearest hospital, and access to hospital care is becoming more and more an issue in
rural
areas, in the US, but also in sparsely populated countries like Sweden.
It can be used to monitor the hearts of patients in remote,
rural
areas.
Now this is important, because what they found working in
rural
communities, is that even when they have a mobile screening van that can go out into the community and perform exams and collect samples and send them to the central hospital for analysis, that days later, women get a call with an abnormal test result and they're asked to come in.
I've been living in
rural
East Africa for about 10 years, and I want to share a field perspective with you on global poverty.
When I first moved to
rural
East Africa, I stayed overnight with a farm family.
We start off by delivering farm inputs to really
rural
places.
It's kind of like Amazon for
rural
farmers.
Our
rural
field officers deliver practical, hands-on training to farmers in the field every two weeks.
In any given area, we hire a
rural
field officer who delivers our services to 200 farmers, on average, with more than 1,000 people living in those families.
Today, we have 2,000 of these
rural
field officers growing very quickly.
Again using the map of Sub-Saharan Africa as an example, remember that
rural
poverty is concentrated in these blue shaded areas.
And you can imagine that larger printers, fast printers like this, could be in your corner pharmacy, in your doctor's office, in a
rural
clinic.
All across this country right now, immigrants, young people, veterans, people of all different backgrounds are coming together to create this kind of passionate, joyful activity around elections, in red and blue states, in urban and
rural
communities, people of every political background.
Young people do not want to be on the farms and in
rural
communities.
In Argentina, there's a program where we connect students who are in rural, remote, hard to reach mountainous communities, with something they've seldom seen: a secondary school teacher.
It didn't do
rural
electrification.
In fact, if you live in any of the
rural
areas where nuclear weapons are stored globally, one is likely pointed at you.
And I love this one: they asked in Japan, they asked the Japanese, for every 100 Japanese people, how many of them live in
rural
areas?
They thought 56 out of every 100 Japanese people lived in
rural
areas.
They offer dedicated green space in both urban and
rural
areas.
A United Nations agency decided to address a serious problem: poor sanitation in schools in
rural
India.
But these are solutions that are relevant in urban and
rural
settings, high and low-income countries, and they have cascading benefits.
The war started in the
rural
countryside, and within months, rebel armies had marched towards our hometown.
Way out in
rural
Liberia, where most girls have not had a chance to finish primary school, Musu had been persistent.
But nurses and doctors are concentrated in cities, so
rural
communities like Musu's have been left behind.
We've learned that blind spots in
rural
health care can lead to hot spots of disease, and that places all of us at greater risk.
We've learned that the most efficient emergency system is actually an everyday system, and that system has to reach all communities, including
rural
communities like Emile's.
And I've seen it play out everywhere, from the forest communities of West Africa, to the
rural
fishing villages of Alaska.
Well, we know that there are still millions of people dying from preventable causes in
rural
communities around the world.
We plan to test and prototype the academy in Liberia and a few other partner countries, and then we plan to take it global, including to
rural
North America.
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