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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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  • PC Film Crew Visits STOMP PCVS in Zambia to learn more about the Net Durability Study!

    David Berger, Brittany McFall, Tiffany Safia, Bob Morris, Jane Coleman  Edward Perry and Lee Gillenwater visited Zambia in May 2012 for a week to learn more about the Stomp PMI/CDC Net Durability Study. All were great sports and spoke on their experience in the study, how much they have enjoyed being part of a research project, and how important it
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  • Malaria Education and Events: Mara Hildebrand

    Malaria work in my village never ends…. Since my one-on-one impromptu malaria training I had with villagers who kept falling ill with malaria to continued teaching I have been doing on ITN usage and the importance of visiting a clinic during pregnancy, I always seem to stay busy in the village regarding malaria. This year
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  • World Malaria Day Fair in Mocuba, Zambezia province

    For World Malaria Day 2012 (April 25th), PCV Tanya Riddle helped her organization Osivela wa Yesu (“For the Love of Jesus” in local language) organize a community fair to educate about malaria and raise awareness. Events began early in the morning with tables set up to educate the community about different kinds of malaria prevention.
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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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  • World Malaria Day Net Care and Repair Event

    Materials (Amounts vary based on how many participants you anticipate attending your event- Use your best judgment. These amounts are based on having around 50 participants) Set up Process Results for Net Repair and Care Event: Ages # Under Nets <1 year 16 1-5 years 129 6-15 years 134 16-25 years 42 26-35 years 42
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  • World Malaria Day in Dabir, Central Region, Ghana

    By Johanna Twiford After gathering community members in our community center, my counterpart George and I welcomed everyone to our World Malaria Day event. The first half of the event included demonstrating how to properly hang, repair and wash a mosquito net. We utilized our new S.W.A.T. Malaria bucket lid to hang the rectangle treated
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  • S.W.A.T. Central takes World Malaria Day head on!

    Central Region Peace Corps Volunteers came together on Sunday, April 22 2012 in our regional capital of Cape Coast to host a World Malaria Day event. As music was pumping and PCV’s were dancing the azonto, a small crowd gathered around to see what the action was about. Soon the music faded and MC’s Zoe
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  • PCV becomes the ‘Malaria Guru’ in his village!

    A Peace Corps Health Volunteer becomes the ‘Malaria Guru & Professor’ in his village this week, when he taught 48 women and 9 men about malaria prevention, sign and symptoms, and treatment for World Malaria Day! Photos and resource materials are to follow…. David N. Berger, CHIP Volunteer, 2011-2013
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  • PC Health Volunteer works with World Vision on a World Malaria Day event in her village!

    Community Health & Improvement Program Peace Corps Volunteer collaborated with World Vision today on a World Malaria Day event in Zambia’s Southern Province! An opening prayer, malaria education skits by neighborhood health committees, and poems and music were written about malaria prevention!  Environmental Health Officers were participating from the MoH and gave a net hanging demonstration
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