Drought-tolerant corn is off-limits to Tanzanian farmers as outside groups debate the best approach for easing hunger across Africa.
China's emergence as a new global power has brought pressure to give back as it takes from Africa. Fake drugs and corruption on both sides have thrown a wrench in those plans.
The shores of Lake Victoria, which borders Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya, are picturesque, poor and filled with unexpected moments of joy. Still, there's no escape from the fight against malaria.
China's outsized reaction to reporting on fake drugs obscures a real discussion about crucial problems.
Fake and substandard medications threaten the fight against malaria in the Lake Victoria Basin, but attitudes can be just as problematic.
China issues an official denial to Guardian series on counterfeit drugs--but doesn't address the scientific research linking China to fake and substandard drugs that now flood Africa.
A vast influx of Western medicine has unleashed an unregulated free-for-all in private dispensaries, critics say.
China is suspected as the source of counterfeit drugs that are holding back the fight against malaria in Africa.
Counterfeit drugs in Tanzania undermine people's faith in lifesaving medicine. They can also kill.
Malaria is one of the diseases affected by unscrupulous traders in fake and substandard drugs.
In Tanzania the fight against tuberculosis and HIV begins with information and removing the stigma from both diseases.
“Witch doctor” is clearly not a Swahili term. But that is what the woman yells, over and over, stomping in place and drinking from a plastic pouch labeled “Premium Vodka.”
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