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  • Marche Madness: Taking Malaria to the Market

    “Pure Water! Pure water! Kpono! Kpono! Tomate! Tomate! Palu! Palu!… wait palu?” The market is often filled with the shouts of women selling their goods, but in Togolese villages the market has now become a forum for discussion on malaria (in Togo we say palu). The market is not just the commercial or economic center
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  • Malaria Month: The Togo 2013 Report

    Throughout the month of April, volunteers from all over Togo held World Malaria Day activities. Here are just a few examples of how volunteers shared information about malaria with their communities: Sarah Hogan, a Health Volunteer, traveled to a nearby village with a local youth group to perform skits. The skits discussed how one contracts
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  • Stomp, Stomp, Stomp

    By: PCV Alice McKinstry, PC/Zambia I remember one of the best camping trips I’ve ever been on. It’s not really the trip as a whole that stands out, but the small things about it – folding origami dinosaurs, going for walks along the Puget Sound beaches, and telling scary stories in the tent at night.
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  • First Annual Women’s Health and Leadership Conference works to Stomp Out Malaria in Burkina Faso

    Peace Corps Burkina Faso’s Gender and Development Committee (GAD) held its first annual Women’s Health and Leadership Conference April 10-12, 2013. The conference focused on gender empowerment, leadership, and common health issues faced by women in Burkina Faso.  Participants included 8 PCVs and 8 Burkinabe counterparts from all across the country. Facilitators included 5  PCVs
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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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  • A LIFE Volunteers STOMPS MALARIA OUT in her village!

    On World Malaria day, I worked with my nearest health volunteer Jen Park to create two programs. 1.  In Mikunku, we did a malaria presentation at our Under 5 clinic and we over 50 women and children, and at least 8 men asking questions and getting involved in the discussion! 2.  Then at Nkumbi clinic
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  • Malaria Education and Events: Mara Hildebrand

    Malaria work in my village never ends…. Since my one-on-one impromptu malaria training I had with villagers who kept falling ill with malaria to continued teaching I have been doing on ITN usage and the importance of visiting a clinic during pregnancy, I always seem to stay busy in the village regarding malaria. This year
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  • Zambian Health PCV distributes 600 PSI/MammaSafeNight Nets to his village!

      June 2011, Nets gets distributed by a PCV Zambian health volunteer! During June of last year the Mwinilunga District Health office had an abundance of PSI/ Mama Safenight mosquito nets, but lacked the funds to distribute them. The community health workers of Kanyikochi and I met to discuss how to bring these nets to
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  • Cameroon is Stomping Out Malaria

    Stomping Out Malaria in Africa ….. What audacity! What bravado! Yet this is exactly the challenge that Peace Corps Cameroon Volunteers have decided to undertake. What’s more, we sincerely believe that that we can succeed in this task! Malaria is the number one killer of children under 5 years old in Cameroon. Over 40% of
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  • World Malaria Day Net Care and Repair Event

    Materials (Amounts vary based on how many participants you anticipate attending your event- Use your best judgment. These amounts are based on having around 50 participants) Set up Process Results for Net Repair and Care Event: Ages # Under Nets <1 year 16 1-5 years 129 6-15 years 134 16-25 years 42 26-35 years 42
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