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163 chapter seven Old Ideas and New Promises Over the past ten years or so there has been a precipitous decline in the efficacy of CQ [chloroquine] across Africa and, in our view, this is the most plausible single factor contributing to the change in malaria-specific childhood mortality. robert w. snow, jean-francois trape, and kevin marsh 2001:596 The current discussions of malaria resurgence tend to place the disease in the active voice and thereby depict humans as passive victims. In the new discourse the emphasis is on the craftiness of the parasite which has become immune to medicines. . . . The resurgence of malaria has been generally blamed on the biology of the “bugs.” peter brown 1997:122 Old Ideas, New antimalarials Hadija, a thirty-five-year-old mother of four children, was visibly distraught when she arrived at my house in Mbande for a prearranged interview. I had previously interviewed Hadija in December 2005, regarding her youngest child who was diagnosed with malaria and treated with sulfadoxinepyrimethamine . This prearranged interview was meant to focus on her life history. Standing under a mango tree in the front yard of my house, she broke down complaining that minutes before she had left her home to come for the interview, someone had broken into her hut and stolen all her belongings—pots, pans, a kerosene stove, a bednet, and clothes. Her neighbors, she said, had probably robbed her of her belongings because they were jealous of her, and she feared that they would bewitch her out of jealousy. “They are jealous of me . . . because I have four sons!” she repeatedly exclaimed. Mama Afidhi and Mariam (my research assistant who was going to help me with the interview that day) stood in silence, listening to Hadija’s story. Several of my neighbors who had gathered around 164 · Philanthrocapitalism Hadija in the front yard, also stood in silence. Realizing that it would be inappropriate to interview Hadija, because she was so distressed, I could do little more than express my sympathy and offer some money to help her buy some food for that day. Two months later, in August 2006, I interviewed Hadija, after learning that two of her four young sons had died. They had both been diagnosed with malaria at the local dispensary and treated with SP, but to no avail. I recorded Hadija’s life history along with illness narratives surrounding her dead two children. Briefly, Hadija identified as a Matumbi. She was born and brought up in Kibaha, one of the districts near Dar es Salaam; she was the second of two children born to her parents. Hadija was in the first year of school when her parents decided to move to Kilimahewa, a village in Rufiji district. They returned to Kibaha a few years later. Hadija’s parents divorced immediately thereafter, when she was in grade 6. While her father married another woman, her mother went to live alone elsewhere. Hadija and her older sister chose to live with their father, who moved with his new wife to Mbande. Hadija lived with her father until she met a man with whom she lived for three years, but they did not marry. She had two children with him, but he refused to marry her. Every time she would raise the question about their marriage, he would beat her. Hadija got tired of her fiancé, left him, and had a relationship with another man with whom she had her third child, but they also did not marry. “We did not actually live together, he would just visit me and provide food and soap, but then he stopped; he did not beat me or anything like that, he just disappeared one day, and I haven’t heard of him since.” Hadija then had a relationship with another man, Mudi, who actually married her. They lived together for about six months, but separated because he stopped providing for her. They did not have a child together. In the meantime, she tried to send her two older children to their father, but the children refused to live with their father and returned to Mbande to be with Hadija. Finally, Hadija moved in with another man, the fifth serial relationship, with whom she had her fourth child. “He was just like the other men; 100 percent of them are liars; he got me pregnant and stopped providing for me, so we separated. Yes, he lives in Mbande. Even when he passes by, he does...

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