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  • Ally Young: Coming Back to Madagascar as a PCRV

    By: PCV Ally Young, PC/Madagascar PC Madagascar welcomes the newest member of the malaria team, PCRV Ally Young, back to Madagascar. Ally served as a health PCV from 2010-2012 and returns for another year as a PCRV working with USAID | DELIVER. Ally’s work concerning malaria began when she served as a health PCV in
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  • Boot Camp VI, Day 4: Logical Frameworks and Theories of Behavior Change

    Matt McLaughlin, Stomp Program Manager, and PCRV Jesse Casanova led a session about project logical frameworks and action planning. They walked participants through the process of putting together a project plan and necessary tools used for monitoring and evaluation. Participants divided into small groups and constructed their own project frameworks and action plans related to
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  • Newly Sworn-In Education PCVs Join in the Fight Against Malaria

    95% of the Ugandan population lives in malaria endemic regions, with the other 5% living in dangerous epidemic-prone areas.  Some districts in Uganda are recorded as having over 4 bites by an infected mosquito per day per person.  (For more information on the current malaria situation in Uganda and what the Presidential Malaria Initiative is
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  • Boot Camp V, Day 4: Behavior Change, HIV/AIDS, and Bed Net Distributions

    Boot camp attendees took no break on this Saturday and the fourth day of malaria boot camp V. The day was filled with country presentations, a session on behavior change, a presentation about bed nets, and an introduction to HIV/AIDS and malaria. The morning started off with country presentations from participants from Burkina Faso and
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  • Chumo

    A product of Johns Hopkins University Center for Communications Programs, USAID and Media for Development International Tanzania, Chumo is a short film about malaria in pregnancy. At each malaria or In-Service Training volunteers get a DVD to share Chumo with students, neighbors and colleagues. I’m still trying to figure out† how to collect data on
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  • Day 4: Behavior Change & Bed Net Distributions

    It’s day 4 of Boot Camp and participants have been learning a lot. Morning sessions were led by Senegal Peace Corps Volunteer Leaders Jessie Seiler and Michael Toso, who discussed behavior change campaigns and the ways to conduct a barrier analysis, followed by a barrier analysis case study. In the afternoon, Jessie talked to the
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  • MVU = Mobile Video Unit

    After the Mtwara/Lindi malaria training with Peace Corps volunteers (PCV) and COMMIT project community change agents (CCA) in April, I went to Masasi to meet Population Services International (PSI) and learn how to operate the mobile video unit (MVU).  We visited two PCV and showed Hali Halisi, a film about stigma and HIV, in each
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  • Behavior Change: Theoretical Models

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