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Gates Foundation tackles a giant that preys on Africa's children
Seeking health, in ways old and new | Amina Mpunga checks on her sleeping, 14-week-old son, Omar Mwinyijuma. The boy is enrolled in the malaria-vaccine trials in Tanzania and gets daily exams from a health worker. His father is a traditional healer and snake wrangler, but the family has faith in modern medicine, too.