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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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  • New Health Volunteer Finds Her Niche in Malaria Work

    By: Kristina Sandfoss I am a Community Health Volunteer with Peace Corps Uganda posted a Health Centre in Kamuli District.  I learned about malaria during my Pre-Service Training, but the statistics did not become real for me until I started to witness the burden in my village. For the last few months, I’ve been working with
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  • Weekly Awesome Burkina Faso: Teaming Up with a Village Midwife to Combat Malaria

    Anna Callaghan is a community health development volunteer living in a village located in the eastern region of Burkina Faso. Upon arriving in her village, Anna started to learn about the community needs by utilizing a series of tools she learned in pre-service training (PST). After a couple months of assessing the needs of the
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  • Weekly Awesome Burkina Faso: Malaria Education Home Visits

    PCV Michael Corcoran lives in a small village located in the Sourou valley of Burkina Faso. After attending malaria training with the president of his village COGES (the committee that serves as an intermediary between his local health clinic and the community), Michael and his counterpart decided to work together to develop a series of
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  • Weekly Awesome Ghana: Volunteer and Counterpart Spotlight – Alisa Langford and Osei Nkuah Jonas

    By Luke Campanella Alisa Langford is a Peace Corps Volunteer located in the Western Region of Ghana. In April, 2012, she was sworn-in as a health volunteer and has dedicated her service to the fight against malaria. Before she even had a chance to settle in at her new home, she participated in World Malaria Day and
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  • PCVs Participate in PIRCOM Malaria Prevention Training

    May 8-10 PCVs Jason Hillis, Madeline Noble, Alicia Portillo, and Anata (Scooter) Walsh attended a training by PIRCOM (Programa Inter-Religioso Contra a Malária—Inter-Religious Program Against Malaria). The first day was a “training of trainers” of the religious leaders of different denominations from the district of Massinga, Inhambane province. The Inhambane provincial coordinator led this training
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  • Kedougou April Update

    Bonjour dear Kedougou comrades, Bienvenue to your second monthly malaria update! Ben and Ian spent a good chunk of March testing out mosquito net visual aids for the net distribution organization Networks. Overall they were very useful and extremely well received by our communities, though there was definitely room for tweaking. Networks is now taking
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  • PCVs Start a Malaria Home Education Project Across Senegal!

    Teaming up again with our local partner NetWorks, Peace Corps Senegal volunteers and the health workers in their villages are getting out to homes across the country and teaching families about how to properly use and maintain their mosquito nets. Using illustrated, laminated cards designed and created by NetWorks, volunteers and their community counterparts are
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  • Ben Gascoigne – Rice Sacks and World Malaria Day

    April 25th is World Malaria Day. On that day, mosquito net care and repair stations will be available at my community’s health post and 196 rice sacks will line the road from my village’s town center to the health post. Needles, thread, soap, buckets, and water will be provided through community donations and partners. Community health
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  • Kedougou Malaria Update- February 2012

    Kedougou Bonjour friends! We, Ben and Ian, have both attended Malaria Bootcamps within the past five months and hope to bring the excitement around Peace Corps’ malaria prevention efforts to our beautiful region. This monthly update aims to coordinate regional malaria work, highlight opportunities to get involved, and keep you informed about what the Head
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