The technology Tanzania’s children with diabetes needed most urgently wasn’t a cutting-edge treatment. It was refrigeration. Local public health clinics across Tanzania provide monthly checkups for children with Type 1 diabetes, as well as free insulin and equipment for monitoring blood glucose. Children and their parents learn what the disease is and how it works. Despairing parents, who may assume their children won’t survive, receive the needed tools to help them live happy and healthy lives. “It’s very difficult, but you don’t give up because the aim is to help,” said Dr. Renatus Nyarubamba, a physician, program manager, and public health research coordinator at the Tanzania Diabetes Association, or TDA . These clinics, which operate out of area hospitals or medical centers, are a lifeline for the poorest families. Conversations with a doctor at a diabetes clinic are often what change parents’ minds about their children’s future – along with free medicines and supplies for managing diabetes.…