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Medical issues from Africa

A special edition of the programme looking at medical issues in Africa

A special edition of the programme looking at medical issues in Africa. A report appears to show that up to 60 per cent of teenage girls have no access to contraception. Also, how race determines the effectiveness of particular medicine and the programme visits Uganda's only cancer research unit, where issues with staffing levels are causing concern.

This is a programme from the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Archive and was originally broadcast in 1998.

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14 minutes

Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project