For as long as the residents of Sogola, Mali can remember, death from diarrhea has been a routine part of life in the village. Almost

A Simple Pill Saves Children's Lives

Zinc tablets help African communities fight diarrhea, a scourge that claims the lives of an astonishing 1.6 million children every year
Photographs by Anna Kari / Documentography for TIME

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