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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...

In Mumbai we meet Shakshi Sawant, a young widow who was infected with HIV by her husband. She works for one of India’s first marriage bureaus for positive people, a dating agency...

Having children is all part of a happy relationship and certainly what Andrew and Michelle want. But Andrew is HIV positive and the risks to both mother and baby make a traditional...

China has the biggest population and the fastest growing economy in the world. It has an economic policy based on growth – which is why as a country it is now the...

Half the world’s population faces severe food shortages by the end of the century as climate change takes its toll on the global harvest. Some countries have already seen riots in protest...