This Senegalese Life

I've posted about cervical cancer and Peace Corps' partnership with PeaceCare, a Chicago-based non-governmental organization, sever...

As many people know, Peace Corps Volunteers love to describe in unsolicited detail all the positively revolting things that have gone into...

I was just up in Dakar for my mid-service medical appointments. About a year into service PCVs are supposed to come up to Med to have a ch...

At the end of every month there is a Growth Monitoring (AKA Baby-Weighing) and Vaccination Day at the Salémata Health Center, and it is pre...

So. Malaria. Basically, a person gets  malaria  from the bite of a mosquito infected with  Plasmodium  parasites . The parasites get int...

So. Peace Corps is a federal agency of the United States' government. Peace Care  is a cleverly, if somewhat confusingly, named non-go...