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...whole answer. Distribution - which is largely the job of health officials and NGOs - has proved particularly difficult. The problem lies in how to successfully monitor the supply chain while still minimizing costs, and so far, no good solution has been found. Vasella recalls visiting a Catholic mission in a Tanzanian village recently and finding that the nuns there were still paying $1 per dose. "We have all the intermediaries marking up the price dramatically," he says. "We've heard reports of some charging as high as $8 a dose to get Coartem to remote areas...
...wanted to be circumcised, had completely healed within a month and was thrilled with the outcome. But I could not provide a satisfying answer to her question for me: why was I still a child, and when would I become an adult? Picture this: two young women, one Tanzanian and one American, both dressed in Maasai traditional clothing (something resembling five layers of red blankets and an exorbitant amount of beaded jewelry), both talking about the same process, but one with a sense of ultimate pride and the other with a mix of apprehension and confusion. I had studied...
...persistent worry about any malaria vaccine is how well it will get along with vaccines already administered against other childhood ills. It does no one any good if the new inoculation wrecks the protections offered by existing ones. For that reason, a second study followed 394 Tanzanian infants who were administered a slightly different formulation of the GSK vaccine at 8, 12 and 16 weeks of age, along with routine inoculations against diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus and influenza B. The vaccine not only did not get in the way of those vaccines but also successfully slashed malaria infections by 55% over...
...While my text message may have been a Tanzanian phenomenon, biofuel is a global issue that arrived in East Africa on the coattails of Western investors. The industry offers tremendous promise but also poses serious risks for countries like Tanzania. As with any endeavor abroad, it is difficult to recognize the widespread repercussions of our actions and therefore we must proceed carefully. If we are too eager to have Africa subsidize our rapacious consumption habits, we may be imposing eco-colonialism rather than pursuing a sustainable solution to our problem...
It’s 9:30 pm, and the only thing standing between my bed and me is a steaming cup of milk—straight from the cow. I’m sitting at the dinner table with my home-stay family in the Tanzanian village of Bangata. We’re all huddled around three cell phones as our source of light since the electricity went out again and I’m staring at a cup of thick, whitish liquid. There are seven of us in total, but no one is really talking. We maxed...