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  • Sleep Tight..

    Karin Nordstrom Now you may be wondering if the risk of malaria is only at night and if no one is newly infected with malaria then it cannot spread, why doesn’t everyone just sleep under their nets and malaria will go away. Well that is much easier said than done. It is hot in Senegal.
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  • Life in the Bush, Malaria Control, and Every Child Deserves a 5th Birthday!

    Blog: Every Child Deserves a 5th Birthday: A PCV in Zambia talks about life in the bush and malaria control. Check out my Blog://shan-in-zam.blogspot.com/ As a Peace Corps Volunteer in a Sub-Saharan African country, I see malaria everywhere. It’s in my village, it’s in Peace Corps culture, it’s at the clinic, it’s in my preschool class,
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  • An Impromptu Malaria Talk

    During last March, I went to visit my village during my long stay at the Kasama house after fracturing my leg. I met with a neighbor who informed me that his family has been severely inflicted by malaria, so I did a one-on-one impromptu training with him. I helped him hang up his ITN correctly
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  • Cameroon Update: Jesse Casanova

    Jesse Casanova blogs about malaria on The Ledger. “A child dies every 60 seconds from malaria, a problem which we are all working together to fight,” he said. “So far there has been a wide range of mosquito net distributions and campaigns to teach people how to properly hang up a mosquito net and use
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  • Malaria Murals: Mariana Andrade-Bejarano

    Here are some pictures of the malaria murals being done!  The first one is Mariana Andrade-Bejarano (in the back) who designed the mural, with a group of students she taught a malaria lesson to using the picture. The rest are of the Peace Corps Trainees and staff painting the mural in Mantasoa this past saturday.  They put some finishing touches
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  • Mozambique Updates: Michelle Crothers

    JUNTOS na Luta Contra a Malária! On Friday, April 20th, two JUNTOS (Jovens Unidos no Trabalho para Oportunidades e Sucesso—Youths United in the Work for Opportunities and Success) groups from neighboring towns met in Chongoene, Gaza province, polish their theater techniques and play soccer. A theater technical trainer came to give the groups feedback on
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  • S.W.A.T. – Standing With Africa to Terminate Malaria In-Service Training

    By: Johanna Twiford S.W.A.T. Malaria met on Monday, April 16th, 2012 at Bunso Cocoa College in the Eastern Region of Ghana to educate and train the new regional representatives. The ten (10) new regional representatives were educated on the basics of malaria, prevention methods, treatment methods, and interventions. They were trained on new participatory user
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  • Spreading the World About Malaria with Twitter!

    Morning folks – I’ve been writing a couple more introspective blogs lately so I thought I’d get back to the meat and bone of volunteer work – projects! I’m narrowing in on today’s project because of it’s importance and because I’m celebrating completing the first of six bi-annual observation visits & the enrolment of 28 households
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  • Mozambique Updates: Adrienne Long

    The picture is of PCVs Adrienne Long (left) and Megan Nelson with SCIP (Strengthening Communities through Integrated Programming) employees, including a regional coordinator, water and sanitation technician, youth coordinator, HIV prevention technician, and members of a theater group. Unfortunately, she does not have pictures from the Monday broadcast, but she has promised to take pictures
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  • Uganda Malaria Update: Amanda Rodriquez

    I spent my service living at the last matatu stop of an urban area.  What lay beyond were endless maze, cassava, bean and banana fields with mud-brick structures scattered here and there with swamp lands and dense jungle intermitted.  I worked with a Community Based Organization (CBO) and a health center teaching both community volunteers
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