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Claire Guest, founder and director of Medical Detection Dogs talks to Dr Ayan Panja in the studio, accompanied by Daisy, a cancer detection dog. Cancer expert, Professor Karol Sikora, gives his thoughts...

In Bangladesh a child dies every 30 minutes from drowning. With about 10,000 sq km of rivers, ponds and rice paddies, more children die from drowning than diseases. Despite this, many boys...

In Bangladesh, strong cultural and traditional ties deter women from giving birth in health centres and hospitals. Babies are dying unnecessarily In Matlab in the rural south-east of the country because their...

One in five children in Haiti is malnourished. US organisation Meds & Food for Kids (MFK) is treating 8,000 children with a high energy, nutritious peanut paste. Taken over six weeks, the...

85% of pregnant women in Bangladesh give birth at home and community health workers are trying to change this. They visit mothers throughout their pregnancy to see how they are progressing and...

Alvin Hall, a business and financial expert, is travelling the world helping social entrepreneurs – business people more interested in doing good than making money – become more successful. Across Africa, millions...

In Matlab district, in south-eastern Bangladesh, the majority of mothers do not give birth in the hospital as it is too difficult for them to get there. Ruby was one of the...

Community health workers in Bangladesh are helping babies survive their first month – the most critical of their lives. The health workers visit new mothers and their babies four times during this...

A pilot study in Tanzania to help prevent malaria is identifying and targeting bodies of water where mosquitoes lay eggs. The larvae are then poisoned with larvicide and eventually die. Results show...

Approximately 20,000 people suffering with diarrhoea are admitted to the main hospital in Matlab in rural Bangladesh every year. Most of them are from poor backgrounds who do not have proper toilets...