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1) Fit for Life
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Bangladesh has one of the highest child mortality rates in the world. Children are most likely to die in their first month of life. We follow two young women in Bangladesh who face very different experiences of pregnancy, childbirth and post-natal care. While Morjina only receives support from a traditional dhai, Rashida is lucky enough to live close to a modern health clinic. This is a very moving account of child birth and the terrible consequences...
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We travel to Poona, India, where the very latest rubella vaccines are under development, and we find out about the new methods of delivery and production. We filmed in the Dominican Republic in Central America, where congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) is a major cause of disabilities. It's estimated that if rubella were brought under control in the Dominican Republic, it would save the country $65 million. Rubella appears as a mild rash, but when caught...
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Birth is a treacherous business, especially in Africa where up to half a million babies die on the day they are born each year. Kenyan Evelyn Katunge knows about the heartbreak of losing newborns. She was just 18 whenher twins died hours after being born. Pioneering programs are being introduced to prevent similar tragedies. We tell Evelyn's story and looks at the work of Indian doctor Abhay Bang who has developed new methods of support for mothers...
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In the developing world it's the leading cause of female cancer deaths: it's cervical cancer, and it kills more than half a million women every year--mostly in poor countries. New low-tech screening programs have begun to reduce cancer deaths, but campaigners like Sarah Nyombi, a politician in Uganda, wants to see more. She's trying to get a brand new vaccine, widely used in the developed world. The trouble is, it costs $300 a shot--way beyond Uganda's...
7) Taking Fakes
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The business of fake medicines and counterfeit drugsis said to be worth $75 billion a year. Developed-world health systems have been targeted, but life-saving drugs in the developing world are now being faked--with fatal results. We gained exclusive access to international counterfeit drug investigators to see the extent of the billion-dollar trade.
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A new and largely fatal disease is emerging in Asia, causing experts so speculate about the start of the next worldwide pandemic. Avian influenza, aka bird flu, is fatal in four out of five cases. The worst hit country is Indonesia where we met Suci, a young girl whose mother died of bird flu. In 2006, her family gathered to celebrate the Muslim holy day of Eid al-Adha, and Suci’s mother contracted bird flu while preparing a meal. She was dead within...
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The major challenge facing the modern world of vaccines is to get them to people right at the end of the line: those people who still don't have access to effective treatment. It's not always remote villages way out in the country; it can also be communities in some of the world's massive slums. The problem is vaccines tend to be complex and sophisticated medicines. Many involve skilled disease diagnoses, difficult delivery systems like cold chains,...
10) Dog Detectors
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Dog Detectors – the dogs that can save your life! With their powerful sense of smell, dogs are the first to know if their diabetic owners are about to fall into a coma. For people with diabetes, low or high blood sugar levels can be very dangerous. A dog’s sense of smell is so acute that it can detect the change before a patient falls ill. A dog’s sense of smell is a million times more powerful than humans. The medical Detection Dogs Training...
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Despite the excellent track record of vaccines in some quarters, they are still treated with considerable suspicion. How can--and should--these doubters be convinced? We show this: polio--in Tajikistan we filmed a father who refused to let his daughter be vaccinated because he thought it was a secret method of birth control. There have also been riots against polio vaccination campaigns and strong resistance to other vaccines like HPV (for example,...
12) Invisible Lives
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Globally there are 3.8 million newborn deaths in the first month of life. Over 40 percent of under-5 deaths are newborn deaths. So how can these numbers be reduced? We go to Malawi and Nepal, who share the same statistics on newborn survival, to find out what is being done.
13) From the Heart
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Strokes are a major public health issue in Europe and are among the leading causes of death and long-term disability in all developed countries. Urgent action is needed to address the dramatically increasing clinical, economic and social burden of stroke in Europe, but what can be done? We look at the causes and some possible solutions.
14) Vaccine Hunters
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It was a new benchmark in the history of warfare, the first time the world had seen precision bombing on a vast scale. With air superiority established over the Iraqis, the coalition air planners were now confident enough to launch conventional aircraft on massive daylight raids. When Saddam Hussein met with his ministers after the first night’s bombing, he had already ordered action he believed would shatter the coalition of Western and Arab countries...
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In part two of The Spanish Holocaust, we speak with the relatives of the those murdered in the Spanish Civil War who tell of the brutality and their attempts to locate the bodies of their loved ones who were murdered. In this documentary, we see how Francisco Franco's Fascist troops took out their wrath on civilians. Many mass grave sites are known only to locals; virtually none of them bears a plaque or any other indication of commemorate the killings....
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Syphilis was thought to have been beaten by mass penicillin treatment in the 1950s and 1960s. Now it's back, particularly among the rural populations of places like Haiti--which medical experts believe is where the disease started in the first place. The theory goes that Christopher Columbus' crew brought the disease back to Europe. Now, special mobile testing units are being used to tackle the disease, and with great success.
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The world stands on the edge of a flu pandemic, according to the world's leading experts. The results, they predict, will be catastrophic. Millions of deaths, economies and civil society in chaos, political life undermined or destroyed. A doomsday scenario! Such outbreaks happen two or three times every hundred years. We are due one now--and the avian flu strain H5N1 is the most likely candidate for a future pandemic. The last catastrophic flu pandemic...
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Malaria kills a child in Africa every 30 seconds. The disease is both the cause and effect of Africa’s poverty. But in Uganda, a pioneering farmer, Clovis Kabaseke, believes he has an answer to both problems, using the Chinese herb Artemisia. Artemisinin-based Combination Therapies - are one of the best new hopes for defeating Malaria. Clovis hopes that by encouraging African farmers to grow the plant, he can cure both poverty and this deadly disease....