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World Service,908 episodes

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Can we eradicate leprosy?
Senegal has embarked on a campaign to stop the disease in its tracks
01 Apr 2021,26 mins
Covid vaccines for children
Covid vaccines for children and how to overcome hesitancy in parents
31 Mar 2021,26 mins
Working with disability
Measures to empower people living with disability in Senegal
26 Mar 2021,26 mins
Can the common cold prevent Covid?
Can a cold prevent Covid, mental health in Covid medical staff, and our amazing heart.
24 Mar 2021,26 mins
Combatting mental illness
Mental health issues for breastfeeding mothers and why swimming can help
19 Mar 2021,26 mins
Vaccine and blood clots
Covid vaccines and blood clots, Tanzania’s hidden epidemic? Haitian healthcare in Chile
17 Mar 2021,26 mins
Covid-19 vaccination in Africa
How the roll out of vaccines is progressing
12 Mar 2021,26 mins
Do vaccines cure Long Covid?
Long Covid and vaccines, blood transfusion myths, and Migraines
10 Mar 2021,26 mins
Modern medicine versus the spirits
Can traditional treatments, including calling on ancestors, help with serious ailments?
05 Mar 2021,26 mins
Pregnancy and Covid-19 vaccination
Health Check examines the issues around Covid-19 vaccines and pregnancy
03 Mar 2021,30 mins
Africa’s blood shortage
Why don’t people want to give blood?
26 Feb 2021,26 mins
Long Covid: solving the mysteries
The UK has launched four major research programmes into Long Covid
24 Feb 2021,35 mins
Sexual health, Covid-19 vaccines
A neglected area of reproductive health and concerns over Covid-19 vaccination in Africa
19 Feb 2021,26 mins
Covid surge in Mozambique
Doctor in Mozambique’s largest hospital on the massive surge in Covid cases and deaths
17 Feb 2021,32 mins
Superbugs and superfoods
How to combat antibiotic resistance and the truth about the health claims of coconut oil
15 Feb 2021,26 mins
Covid vaccines: bad news, good news
AstraZeneca vaccine disappoints in South Africa but may reduce virus spread elsewhere
10 Feb 2021,38 mins
Vaccinating Africa against Covid-19
Vaccinating Africa’s 1.2 billion people against Covid-19 & simple sanitation solutions
08 Feb 2021,26 mins
Covid-19 vaccines prevent 100% of deaths
With a new slew of good Covid vaccine trial results, a remarkable trend emerges
03 Feb 2021,33 mins
Brazilian city’s Covid crisis: ‘It’s like Hell’
Health system meltdown as coronavirus infections surge in Manaus for a second time
27 Jan 2021,38 mins
First days of India’s Covid vaccination programme
India’s Covid mass vaccination begins. But there are questions
20 Jan 2021,36 mins
WHO warns against vaccine rollout unfairness
Are poorer countries missing out in the global vaccine rollout? A warning from the WHO
13 Jan 2021,34 mins
The first year of the pandemic
The show looks back at the pandemic exactly one year since we first reported its start
06 Jan 2021,39 mins
How children think about maths and time
Doughnuts today or tomorrow? How 4 year olds understand time
30 Dec 2020,27 mins
Ambiguous loss: a different kind of grief
Have you lost a loved one who is still a part of your life in some way?
23 Dec 2020,26 mins
In Iran, one in five infected by coronavirus
Study reveals prevalence of coronavirus infection across Iran, with 72 percent in one city
16 Dec 2020,30 mins
Gene therapy for sickle cell disease
Gene therapy has transformed the lives of six young people with sickle cell disease
09 Dec 2020,36 mins
Milestone in HIV prevention for women
African clinical study finds an injection every 8 weeks protects women from HIV infection
02 Dec 2020,35 mins
Another week, another Covid-19 vaccine success
Good news about Covid vaccines keeps coming but can everyone benefit from the successes?
25 Nov 2020,35 mins
Measles outbreak threat due to Covid
Disruption to measles immunisation raises the risk of large outbreaks in Africa
18 Nov 2020,35 mins
Covid vaccine ‘90% effective’
How big a deal is the ‘90% effective’ coronavirus vaccine?
11 Nov 2020,26 mins