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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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  • Sarah Kuech: Community Hero Djibi Mballo

    On a sunny November morning Djibi Mballo walks into the Sare Coly Salle Health Post and gazes across the dozens of lethargic children lying in their mothers’ arms. He purposefully greets every patient and every health worker. He then picks up his stethoscope, thermometer, and blood pressure cuff, and begins his long day of work.
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  • Scaling Up PECADOM+

    Having now been here for over a year, patterns are starting to emerge.  It’s now April again.  April means a lot of things: one of the hottest months of the year, saying goodbye to our friends and mentors who came a year before us and meeting those who will replace them, the ripening of mangoes,
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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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  • 6 Million in Senegal to Receive Free Mosquito Nets in 2013

    Senegal’s Final Distribution Phase in Progress All day meetings on February 7th and 8th at the Red Cross in Thies kicked off the last of five mosquito net distribution phases aiming to eradicate Malaria in Senegal. The current phase of the multi-year project will cover Thies and Dakar, with net distribution set for March and
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  • Nightwatch Curriculum Week

    By: PCVs Chelsea Moeller and Rachel Zorn Teachers: PCV Rachel Zorn, PCV Chelsea Moeller, Monsieur Balde Location: Anambe Elementary School (PCV Rachel Zorn’s Site), Kolda Region Date: December 11-15, 2012 NighWatch is a 6-day malaria education curriculum designed for elementary and middle school students. Malaria No More created the curriculum in 2011. Day 1: Introductions
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  • Linguere Universal Coverage Campaign

    Since May, regional health staff, community members, NGO partners, and PCVs have been working together to stomp out malaria as part of Senegal’s Universal Coverage (UC) campaign in Senegal’s Louga region. The past several months have been packed with trainings, bed net distributions, media and awareness events all over the region, and I’ve gotten involved
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  • Weekly Awesome Senegal: An Extensive Malaria Radio Program

    By: Team TEWDU FM (94.0 rajo men oo Diaobe), PC/ Senegal The TEWDU FM (94.0 Diaobe) Peace Corps radio program has completed the early stages of an audacious, eight show series about malaria. The series has at least three broad goals: to produce high quality mass media communications to disseminate educational messages about malaria; to  involve local
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  • Weekly Awesome Senegal: Testing and Treating Rural Populations

    By: PCV Ian Hennessee This year Peace Corps Senegal’s proverbial malaria stomp has gotten a little extra ‘oomph’ with a promising new program of early testing and treatment called PECADOM Plus. The project was founded by Health Volunteer Ian Hennessee and his counterpart Cheikh Tandian and local doctor Ismaila Diop. The aim of the project
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  • Weekly Awesome Senegal: An Innovative Representation of the Economic Malaria Burden

    By: PCV Ben Gascoigne Kédougou is one of the regions of Senegal most heavily burdened by malaria. PCV Ben Gascoigne lives in a village of about 950 people 35 kilometers outside the regional capital into the mountains. Ben and his counterpart, Mamba Camara, decided to speak with members of their community about the amount of
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