after serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cambodia. Rates of anxiety and depression among young U.S. adults have risen sharply in recent years. In 2020, a Centers for Disease Control and ...

The Peace Corps is an independent agency of the U.S. government. Ruck said her daily stipend was about $38 for her economic-development duties in a Windhoek community center that serves orphans ...

A former Peace Corps volunteer who worked in Liberia reflects on the lessons she took with her in a lifetime of diplomatic ...

That's the situation that over 7,000 Peace Corps ... and staffing call centers. An agency such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Even as states move ahead with plans to reopen their economies, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and ... using Census Bureau workers and Peace Corps and AmeriCorps volunteers ...

The director of the Centers ... she was a Peace Corps volunteer in Lesotho. In 2008, Dr. Knight helped start Nigeria’s Field Epidemiology Training Program, training “disease detectives ...

Approximately 10% of malaria cases reported annually in U.S. citizens by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention occur in Peace Corps volunteers, according to the report. Most of these ...

Peace Corps builds relationships over the long term. In addition to losing global influence, losing the ability to effectively combat the spread of disease puts our own nation in danger.

Bernice Heiderman, a 24-year-old Peace Corps volunteer, died of undiagnosed malaria in the African island nation of Comoros in 2018. Her family sued. By Sheryl Gay Stolberg Reporting from ...