In this episode Sarah interviews Dr. Andrew Sherman, a local pediatrician and Co-President of Net Life, a non-profit that works to prevent malaria in Africa by addressing barriers that exist to using mosquito nets.
Netlife is tackling malaria by working to address the barriers that exist to using mosquito nets. In 2019, we will be working with Senegalese community leaders and youth groups to develop and implement a program that will provide outdoor sleeping resources and education.
About Netlife
Our founder Andy was a Peace Corps Volunteer from 2000-2002 in this the Bandafassi Region in Senegal. He left at the end of his service with a desire to do more. Both in medical school, he and Jesse, also a returned volunteer started a collaboration to continue their efforts.
They founded Netlife, which works with villages in the Bandafassi region to fight Malaria. This region is the farthest from the capital and it is very underserved from a health perspective. Despite large campaigns to provide mosquito nets, surveys show that people in these villages do not have an adequate supply of nets. When rainy season arrives, this leaves children and adults on unprotected sleeping spaces. Stagnant water is abound with the nearby terrain, breeding mosquitoes to carry the deadly malaria parasites.
About Dr. Sherman
Dr. Sherman earned his Medical Doctorate from Saint Louis University School of Medicine and completed his pediatric residency at the University of Rochester Medical Center. He completed a subsequent academic general pediatric fellowship at URMC while concurrently earning his Masters in Public Health. Dr. Sherman is board certified in general pediatrics.
