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  • World Malaria Day: A New Day in The Gambia

    After a few false steps and volunteers finishing their services, Peace Corps, The Gambia, is reorganized and motivated to stomp malaria out of The Gambia.  Volunteers and alums of Stomp Out Malaria Boot Camps V and VI have formed the Malaria Taskforce.  Its main goal is to organize and concentrate efforts to fight Malaria throughout
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  • Senegal Health Trainees Repair Nets with Families

    Senegal’s new Preventive Health cohort is in training. To celebrate World Malaria Day, trainees each held a net care and repair session with the Community Based Training host families. Here are just a couple examples of their experiences: During my counterpart workshop, I learned that in the 90s, malaria was such a huge problem that
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    Because Mosquitos Suck

    Mosquitos SUCK, both literally and metaphorically. The bites of infected Anopheles mosquitos spread the deadly disease of malaria via Plasmodium parasites. There are five parasite species that cause malaria in humans, of which Plasmodium falciparum is the most deadly and present in Senegal. Malaria is a crisis, with over half of the world’s population at
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  • A Promise to Protect Your Dreams

    On April 25th, World Malaria Day, Erica Berlin, her CM2 school teacher, Abdoulaye Bodian, and her school director, Pape Ousmane Diedhiou, conducted the last of a series of malaria after school classes for 24 primary school students. This school curriculum, called Nightwatch, teaches students about malaria and how to prevent its spread: by sleeping under
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  • World Malaria Day Health Fair in Sokone

    On March 25, in recognition of World Malaria Day, 6 PCVs from varying sectors (health, CED, agriculture and agroforestry) went to Sokone’s weekly market to put on a malaria awareness training. The Peace Corps booth, which happens once a month on various topics, provided information on bed net care and repair. The PCVs went through
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  • We Are Just Visitors Here

    It is now a year after my service and I am back in the United States, gearing up for my thesis research in Kenya this summer. Of the 8 students in our lab, 6 of us are going somewhere in Africa. The conversations in our office these past weeks have inevitably turned to discussions of
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  • Malaria Mural at Local Health Clinic

    A malaria mural has hit Thyou, Burkina Faso! Trevor Pratt and Sara Chandler, volunteers in Thyou and Sala, are helping to Stomp Out Malaria in Africa! They spent three days painting a mural at the local health clinic. The wall where the mural is painted faces the main street in the village attracting much attention
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  • Stop Malaria Project Interview: Badru Gidudu Walimbwe

    As part of BAMM (Blog About Malaria Month) I will be featuring brief interviews with my coworkers at Stop Malaria Project (SMP) and Malaria Consortium (MC) in the Soroti office. Note: SMP is implemented by MC, which provides technical assistance to the project.   Badru Gidudu Walimbwe is the Technical Team Leader for the Teso
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  • The Least Favored Children

    Senegal is home to approximately half a million talibe (children who live and study in traditional Koranic boarding schools that are often unregistered and unrecognized). In Saint Louis alone there are over 38,634 talibes. Talibes have struggled to be recognized as children in this country, among the Senegalese, foreigners, medical professionals, ex pats, and aid
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  • The Cracks

    It was two months after the rains ended in my region of Senegal, when people have stopped worrying about malaria because the mosquitoes aren’t around as much. My family had eaten our pounded corn and peanut sauce around our lunch bowl, and I had retired to my room for an afternoon nap. Of course, I
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