Situating COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Tanzania

This article is part of the series: Contested Truths

In early February 2021, Tanzanian Health Minister Dorothy Gwajima announced that the Tanzanian government would not partake in COVID-19 vaccination campaigns—“we are not yet satisfied that those vaccines have been clinically proven safe.” Instead, Gwajima shared that the Government Chemist was testing and approving natural local remedies, where “these traditional remedies have been in use for ages in our societies …

Lectures

September 15, 2020

Needles to needles: how ear acupuncture can work for substance use recovery

By Eana Meng

This article is part of the series: Dispatches from the pandemic

Helen was telling me about her day while I poured tea. Suddenly, the double doors swung open and a middle-aged man in a worn grey jacket briskly walked in. He looked at us, pointed to the room behind us, and blurted out, “Ear acupuncture?”

“Yes,” Helen said. “Have you been here before?”

The man nodded and walked past us into …

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Situating COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Tanzania

Needles to needles: how ear acupuncture can work for substance use recovery