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The Economist
Aug 15th 2002 | MOROGORO

Even a tiny health budget, if spent well, can make a difference

A SMALL Tanzanian child started to shake uncontrollably. Fortunately, she was in a clinic, where the doctor guessed immediately that she was in the grip of malarial convulsions. Unfortunately, her mother believed that the convulsions were caused by evil spirits, and that if the doctor gave her daughter an injection to calm her, those spirits would escape through the needle-hole and possess more victims. So she swept her daughter up in her arms and ran out of the clinic. ...



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