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  • New Trainees Compete and Learn About Bed Nets

    What better way to start out April than to meet Peace Corps Malawi’s 18 new trainees and educate about malaria! On April first I headed up north from my site to greet the new Peace Corps trainees who arrived in Malawi on March 7, 2013. They seemed super enthusiastic and motivated to learn about the
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  • Excel Training

    Guest BAMM Blog by Michelle Evans No, we are not celebrating the disease, but the fight against it.  As part of PC Guinea’s celebration of malaria month, we have all been challenged to get involved in malaria projects at our sites.  Our malaria coordinator even made a competition out of it, and the region with
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  • Stomping Toward April

    As April approaches, so does Malaria Month! Peace Corps Guinea is proud to announce its first ever Malaria Month contest. The one-month countdown to World Malaria Day, on April 25th, has begun. While this day is a momentous time for raising awareness about the disease, malaria transmission occurs year-round in Guinea. According to the Ministry
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  • Madagascar Mini Boot Camp

    The Madagascar Stomp team facilitated the first of many mini boot camps last week! On Friday, February 22, fifteen Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs) from the Tamatave, Moramanga and Ambatondrazaka regions gathered in Moramanga for a one-day mini boot camp on malaria. Most participants had not received any malaria training prior to the boot camp. The
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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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  • Peace Corps Botswana Conducts First Malaria Trainings Among Northern Volunteers

    Dumelang ditsala (hi friends!) and welcome to Peace Corps Botswana’s first ever blog post for Stomping Out Malaria! Botswana recently joined the Stomp initiative through the classic Stomp rite of passage – Boot Camp! Program Manager, Oarabile Makgabana-Dintwa and Malaria Coordinator PCV, Hays Huguley attended Boot Camp V in September and returned to Botswana eager
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  • SWAT Malaria Gaining Momemtum and Stride

    Where do you see it going? That was the question four SWAT Team members pondered while perched around a table in August before the most recent SWAT Team training.  One by one ideas began presenting themselves.  Original Research.  Collaborations with local partners. Mass Media Advertisement Campaigns.  100% participation amongst PCVs in malaria control.  As the ideas kept coming, it became
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  • Health Volunteers Stomp It Out at IST

    This October in the town of Musanze, in the shadows of Rwanda’s volcanoes (pictured above), 21 health volunteers participated in a ten-day in-service training and counterpart workshop. These volunteers, nicknamed Health 4, are currently living in 11 of Rwanda’s 30 districts, working closely with health center staff to address the needs of their communities. The
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  • Malaria Think Tank Springs Into Action

    Last week the newly formed Peace Corps Uganda Malaria Think Tank held its first meeting! Comprising the Think Tank are Malaria Team members Matt Boddie and Ashley Givan, as well as Community Health Volunteers Sarah Cornett, Kristina Sandfoss, and Chris Peterson.  The Think Tank had the opportunity to sit down with Country Director, Loucine Hayes; 
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  • Stomp Mozambique Team Shares Knowledge with New Health Volunteers

    During the recent Reconnect In-Service Training, the 18th group of volunteers to serve in Mozambique (colloquially called “Moz 18”) participated in an invaluable training that enables them to stomp out malaria in Mozambique. 3rd year Volunteers and Stomp Coordinators Kyla Johnson and Scooter “Anata” Walsh presented sessions about malaria in pregnancy, HIV/AIDS and malaria co-infection,
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