May 2012
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May 31st
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Weekly Awesome, Madagascar: World Malaria Day?...
Nothing like a little friendly competition. The month of April marked Malaria Month here in Madagascar, and along with that came the malaria month competition. Volunteers were challenging each other by region for most malaria projects and third goal activities completed. There were guidelines for the amount of points that certain activities would be worth, for example a neem cream demonstration...
May 30th
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May 29th
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Weekly Awesome, Madagascar: Spotlight on Volunteer...
Focusing in on the Future.   Monica Skelton, a health volunteer in the south of Madagascar, turned what was originally an idea for a simple World Malaria Day project into a multiple week event to educate youth and their families about malaria prevention. She went around to every house in the small villages - fokontanys - surrounding her commune, to take pictures of families who already properly...
May 28th
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May 25th
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Peace Corps Volunteer talks about how Every Child... →
May 24th
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May 23rd
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May 23rd
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May 22nd
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May 16th
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Stomping Out Malaria in Mozambique: Stomping Out... →
stompoutmalaria-mozambique: Last week, 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…
May 15th
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Stomping Out Malaria in Mozambique: World Malaria... →
stompoutmalaria-mozambique: 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…
May 15th
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One Step Closer to Victory
Peace Corps Response volunteer Jesse Casanova works in Cameroon with Malaria No More. Below is his account of their awesome World Malaria Day activities featured on the Malaria No More website: World Malaria Day is an opportunity for everyone to rally together for a single cause. It is a day when health partners, the government, the private sector and communities find common ground. This year,...
May 14th
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May 14th
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Reflections on Malaria
So. Malaria. Basically, a person gets malaria from the bite of a mosquito infected with Plasmodium parasites. The parasites get into the bloodstream, mess up the red blood cells, and start making the person all feverish and then really, really sick. If another uninfected mosquito bites that sick person then that mosquito becomes infected and can pass on  Plasmodium parasites to the next person it...
May 10th
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May 9th
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May 8th
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May 7th
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Waduto wariw lwedo watiek tuo mar malaria
Together we continue to get rid of malaria. Today in Kenya, 72 children will die of a Malaria infection. In America we don’t learn much about Malaria because it was eradicated in the 1950s. The disease is caused by a parasite, Plasmodium Falciparum, and it is passed to humans through a mosquito. At my clinic almost half of the patients who are under the age of five come to be treated for malaria...
May 5th
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May 4th
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From Sarasota to Mozambique, to tackle AIDS and...
By Barbara Peters Smith, Herald-Tribune Wednesday, May 2, 2012 One thing that bothers journalists a lot is the flow of publicity bids that arbitrarily designate a day or a month as the best time to ponder a certain pressing topic. Did you know, for instance, that May is National High Blood Pressure Education Month, Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month, National Skin Cancer Awareness Month,...
May 3rd
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Learning about malaria made fun: a mosquito...
stompoutmalaria-mozambique: PCVs Anna Tremaine and Scooter Walsh gathered up the neighborhood children last Monday for a small malaria lesson in preparation for World Malaria Day on April 25th. They quizzed the children on what they already knew and discussed malaria transmission, prevention, symptoms and treatment. After sufficient repetition of facts, the fun began: all the kids were given...
May 2nd
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May 1st
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“One sack of rice in my regional capital costs 15,000CFA. Calculating for...”
– http://beninsenegal.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/rice-sacks-on-world-malaria-day/
May 1st