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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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  • Paving the Way for Universal Coverage in Uganda: the Serere District Bednet Campaign

    On September 14th, 2012, four districts in Uganda received over 600,000 bednets through a pilot distribution implemented by the Stop Malaria Project in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and funding from the President’s Malaria Initiative. The districts were chosen because they were neglected during the 2010 Global Fund Phase I Round 7 distribution. Compared to
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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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  • 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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  • Linguere Malaria Update: April

    On Saturday, April 6th, volunteers in the Louga region met to discuss malaria prevention activities. Senegal’s universal coverage campaign is coming to the northern region this month, and the meeting, held in Linguere, was convened to allow volunteers to discuss their plans to contribute. In previous distributions, volunteers have helped out at health posts and
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  • NightWatch: Promoting Mosquito Net Use in Senegal

    Peace Corps Senegal is excited to be partnering with Malaria No More and Speak Up Africa to bring the fight against malaria into classrooms across the country using the NightWatch campaign. NightWatch is a combination of a communication campaign and a school curriculum, both designed to encourage Senegalese people to use their mosquito nets. Nightly
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