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Learn more: http://pulitzercenter.org/projects/china-health-aid-africa-developing-world-corruption-anti-malarial-drugs-vaccines While most of the world has been noticing China's aid in Africa, the health care China has been providing has gone mostly unnoticed. Journalist Kathleen McLaughlin reports on fake drugs in Africa, focusing on malaria pills. Traveling through Tanzania and Uganda, McLaughlin reports on how the fake drugs are almost impossible to tell apart from the actual drugs — both the packaging and the ingredients are almost identical. Up to one third of the malaria pills are fake, leaving people in dangerous situations. Furthermore, the parasite continues to spread and since the fake drugs contain half-strength of partial active ingredients, the parasite could potentially become resistant to the current medication. This report is part of the Pulitzer Center sponsored project: "China's Angry Reaction Hides Some Real Concern Over Fakes"

Learn more: http://pulitzercenter.org/projects/arctic-ocean-ecosystem-norway-iceland-russia-greenland-canada-alaska-climate-change-trade-environment-tourism-ice-caps-glacier The impact of global warming is clear: icecaps are melting, glaciers are disappearing, fish are lacking, oil, gas and minerals are now more readily accessible below ground. Human settlements must deal with these changes by relocating or even abandoning their villages. Journalist Yves Eudes has been traveling around the world for decades, focusing his reporting on climate change in communities in different countries. His six-part reporting project looks at small communities in Norway, Iceland, Russia, Greenland, Canada and Alaska. This report is part of the Pulitzer Center sponsored project: "The Melting Arctic"

Learn more: http://pulitzercenter.org/projects/egypt-cairo-revolution-government-protesters-tahrir-square-hosni-mubarak Cairo, Egypt, has been in the forefront of the news for almost two years now. But what is happening outside the square? Forty percent of Egypt's population lives outside of Cairo and hosts 80 percent of those living in severe poverty. Journalist Lauren Bohn traveled to various places in Egypt to learn more about people outside Cairo: what does the word revolution mean to them and what does their future Egypt look like? Their stories, indicative of a more multifaceted and complex Egypt that extends outside a square, can no longer be ignored. For they will also decide on what a new Egypt looks like. This report is part of the Pulitzer Center sponsored project: "Egypt: The Country Outside the Square"

Learn more: http://pulitzercenter.org/projects/turkey-iraq-kurdistan-diyarbakir-erbil-oil-pipeline-autonomy-oppression Journalist Jenn Krajeski traveled trough Turkey to Erbil in norther Iraq trying to understand how the burgeoning relationship between Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan might impact Kurds living in Turkey. The border between Turkey and Iraq slices through an unrealized Kurdish nation. However, Erbil is growing, which leads to the question: will the border bring together the pieces of Kurdistan, or will it wall off a part of it? Will the pieces be able to join together or will they continue to be separate entities. Currently, one of Turkey's most difficult challenges is negotiating with its Kurdish minority. What happens next could either help ease violence or it could further isolate Turkey's Kurds. This reporting is part of the Pulitzer Center sponsored project: "Opportunity and Oppression in a Divided Kurdistan"

Journalists Fred de Sam Lazaro and Simone Ahuja discuss their project KISS: Fighting Poverty with School and Sport to Keep Maoists at Bay. With a grant from the Pulitzer Center, de Sam Lazaro and Ahuja went to a remote part of India to look at the work of an alternative education program devised with the intention of luring tribal children away from the Maoist separatist conflict. The Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) — which children can attend at no cost — teaches close to 18,000 pupils and focuses on language, culture and religion. This project takes a look into the school's business model: how it works, how it stays afloat and how it is supporting often neglected children in India

Esha Chhabra travels to India to look at the strides made against polio and new innovations in mHealth for her project "India: Polio-Free and Looking Ahead at mHealth." She looks at what is ahead for the polio campaign, how the same infrastructure can be used for different health campaigns, and what is being done to treat those who are already afflicted by the disease. mHealth, on the other hand, is in its infancy. She looks at early-stage mHealth initiatives, their struggle to achieve scale, and the few success stories.

Allison Shelley and Allyn Gaestel, the team behind the Pulitzer Center project "Chaupadi: Nepali Women's Monthly Exile" discuss the challenges and lessons learned in Nepal's far west.

Pakistan is one of the most dangerous country for journalists, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Despite her limited knowledge of Urdu, Pulitzer Center grantee and video journalist Hilke Schellmann ventured out into an unfamiliar part of Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, with a driver who didn't speak English. Here Schellmann shares her story, the lessons she learned from her reporting experience in Pakistan and a word of advice for foreign correspondents: "Be ultra prepared."

Reporting from Tripoli, Pulitzer Center grantee William Wheeler looks at Libya's attempt to transform itself into a stable, peaceful and democratic country.

Photojournalist Louie Palu discusses his work along the U.S.-Mexico border. He shares how he became interested in the area, the difficulties that came with reporting there, and what surprised him most. His project, “Drawing the Line: The U.S.-Mexico Border” examines security and immigration issues along the border.

Pulitzer Center grantees Noah Friedman-Rudovsky and Sara Shahriari report from Bolivia on Lake Titicaca, documenting the contamination and environmental destruction of South America's most important lake. The contamination stems from upstream urban pollution, largely resulting from the migration of Bolivian people from the countryside to the city of El Alto. The influx overwhelms the city's infrastructure, causing waste management problems and severe health risks, in addition to sending pollution downstream to unsuspecting communities and, ultimately, Lake Titicaca.

Des Moines Register reporter Tony Leys and photojournalist Mary Chind talk about some of their previous experiences reporting overseas and some of the issues they faced while working on this project in Haiti.

News and documentary producer Steve Sapienza introduces the water and sanitation reporting project called "Dhaka's Challenge: A Megacity Struggles with Water, Sanitation and Hygiene."

Journalist Fred de Sam Lazaro explains the source of declining birth rate in Brazil and how it could enhance women’s role in the society—a topic of his project “Brazil: Girl Power.”

Reese Erlich is a rare voice coming out of Syria during this turbulent time. As one of very the few journalists able to get into Syria to report on the uprising, Erlich explains the tactics used by anti-regime demonstrators as well as their goals: free elections, a parliamentary system and an end to corruption. His reports give voice to all sides: regime loyalists, anti-government activists, businessmen, bazaar merchants, Kurdish refugees and other ethnic and religious minorities.

Photojournalist Sean Gallagher discusses his recent work on the Tibetan Plateau. He shares his thoughts on how he conceptualized his project, its evolution and how he executed it in the field, discussing some of the challenges he faced. His project, "Meltdown: Climate Change and Environmental Degradation on the Tibetan Plateau," looks at issues such as melting glaciers, grassland degradation, desertification, mining and the disappearance of Tibetan culture.

Director Callum Macrae introduces "No Fire Zone," a feature length film about the final awful months of the 26-year-long Sri Lankan civil war told by the people who lived through it. It is a meticulous expose of some of the worst war crimes and crimes against humanity of recent times.

Japan's structural economic problems are further alienating its already marginalized populations. Photojournalist Shiho Fukada goes beyond the bright lights of Tokyo to document the country's unemployment crisis: disposable workers who are easily fired and live without a social safety net. They are usually shut out from the rest of the society, living in poverty but rarely acknowledged by their fellow citizens. Fukada's photographs add a human face to widely discussed issues—from day laborers living on the streets to educated women taking banal jobs. She reveals the other side of Japan where alcoholism, hopelessness and suicide are increasingly commonplace.

In parts of Pakistan today, women are seen as property of men and are believed to personify the honor of their families. Local tribal assemblies, known as jirgas, often declare a woman kari - literally a "black female" or "tainted woman" - if she marries someone of her own choosing or is rumored to have acted "dishonorably." In order to restore the family’s honor, the family or the tribe must kill the woman. For their project, "Outlawed in Pakistan," Habiba Nosheen and Hilke Schellmann follow two strong women who narrowly escaped death at the hands of their families and are now struggling to find justice and begin new lives.

Meet two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Salopek, a National Geographic fellow and Pulitzer Center grantee who will begin a trek around the world in winter 2013. His "Out of Eden" walk, which will follow the path of human migration out of Africa, will span 39 countries and take approximately seven years.

From the slums of Kenya and refugee camps of Lebanon to the sugar plantations of the Dominican Republic and the far reaches of Bangladesh, men, women and children across the world have found themselves living without citizenship rights. Rejected by their countries of birth and unwelcome everywhere else, they are called by international rights organizations “the stateless.” In this question and answer session with Sean Mullan of the International Journal of Media and Information Policy, Greg Constantine, a photojournalist who is covered statelessness around the world since 2006, discusses one of the least covered issues in international human rights.

Chinese immigration to Suriname is surging (a half a million and counting), and this has raised great concern among the Surinamese. There is a wide economic gap burgeoning between Suriname's native citizens and Chinese immigrants. The Chinese come seeking prosperity, and don't plan on leaving anytime soon -- James Whitlow Delano captures the settled life of Chinese immigrants in Suriname and the consequent tensions.

Papua New Guinea is a country torn between its traditional culture and the global economic system. Journalist and radio documentary-maker Céline Rouzet shares what attracted her to this place, why she decided to investigate this topic, and the main challenges she faced reporting there. Her project, “Exxon Mobil's Papua New Guinea LNG Project,” explores the social and economic issues related to the biggest development project undertaken in the history of the Pacific region.

When photographer Peter DiCampo and writer Austin Merrill traveled to Ivory Coast, they hoped to document shaky but definitive steps toward reconciliation. Instead, they found evidence of continued turmoil and conflict, as rival factions refuse to let go of past grievances and look toward the future. When cocoa becomes political – and land disputes over a single cash crop fuel a bitter civil war – is there hope of moving forward?