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...fuzzy math aside, the good news is that malaria control efforts are working. The 2008 World Malaria Report singles out Eritrea, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, and the Tanzanian region of Zanzibar for their remarkable improvements in cutting malaria illness and death. Since 2000, all of them have managed a greater than 50% drop in both rates, and all of them have done it through a combination of familiar methods: using long-lasting insecticidal bed nets to prevent mosquito bites; treating the disease with the newer, more effective artemisinin-based combination drug therapy; and spraying homes with insecticide. In these...
...This kind of contribution takes the brainpower that makes life better for the richest and dedicates some of it to improving the lives of everyone else. Some pharmaceutical companies, like Merck and GlaxoSmithKline, are already doing this. The Japanese company Sumitomo Chemical shared some of its technology with a Tanzanian textile company, helping it produce millions of bed nets, which are crucial tools in the fight to eradicate malaria. Other companies are doing the same in food, cell phones and banking...
...than 20 albinos, who suffer from a genetic disorder that results in sensitive, pigmentless skin, blond hair and blue eyes, have been killed in the past year. The main suspects are local witch doctors, who sell albino organs and hacked-off body parts as good-luck charms. In April, Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete appointed an albino to be a Member of Parliament and ordered a crackdown on witch doctors...
...Patricia Nyalusi follows the reenactment of the Stations of the Cross on Friday, she waves a handkerchief-sized Tanzanian flag. At home in Mbeya, in the country's south, "I never dreamed of such a big journey." From her small wage as a hospital lab technician, she supports both her parents and three younger siblings. But friends who went to the last World Youth Day, in Cologne, Germany in 2005, inspired her to aim for Sydney. She sees the pilgrimage partly as a thank-you to the missionaries who put her through school and college. "I put something aside each...
...counterinsurgency. His intent was genocide." Human-rights groups applauded. Others, including Western diplomats and governments in China and Africa, warned that the indictment risks prolonging, even exacerbating, the conflict in Sudan, which has already cost 200,000 lives and displaced 2.5 million people. Speaking for the African Union, Tanzanian Foreign Minister Bernard Membe told Agence France-Presse that if Al-Bashir is arrested, Sudan will face "a power vacuum . . . that risks military coups and widespread anarchy reminiscent of . . . Iraq...