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Our global health series Survival continues to thrive in the USA.  The 4 x 60′ ep version running on PBS is entering it’s 4th year on-air and has ready notched up more...

Richard Wilson travels to the West Antarctic Ice Shelf to see the work of scientists who are investigating changes to the shape of the ice – and the possible consequences for our...

In Brazil, millions of people are infected with intestinal worms. They drain people of their energy and vital nutrients. They can stunt the growth of children as well as sabotaging their mental...

In the forgotten slums of Manila, thousands of children are struggling to breathe. Pneumonia kills more than ten thousand children under five in the Philippines every year. They desperately need intensive hospital...

Tuberculosis, a disease once thought to be under control, is spreading and mutating. It’s developing resistance to almost every drug available to treat it. In South Africa, fears of an epidemic have...

Children are most likely to die in their first month of life. Across the world, infections, disease and poor nutrition cause millions of unnecessary deaths. Bangladesh has one of the highest child...

Women in Bangladesh are fifty times more likely to die in childbirth than women in the developed world. Few have access to good quality medical care. Traditional birth attendants, known as “dhais”,...

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...

Sleeping Sickness is the deadliest disease in the world. The Democratic Republic of Congo suffers more cases than almost any other country. Without treatment, parasites called trypanosomes invade the victim’s brain, ravage...

The people of Niger, one of the poorest countries in the world, suffer from a host of forgotten, parasitic diseases. Schistosomiasis and Lymphatic Filariasis were defeated long ago in the developed world...