2024 in global health
2024 health predictions; A phone app for diagnosing TB coughs; One man’s road to kidney transplant; RSV vaccine.
A treaty to help the world cope with the next pandemic, new ways to treat undernutrition and a last goodbye to polio. Could these be some of the health advances that 2024 will bring? Claudia asks global health journalist Andrew Green for his predictions.
Monica Lakhanpaul, professor of integrated community child health at University College London joins Claudia in the studio to discuss new evidence showing that a vaccination for winter virus RSV could cut hospital admissions in children by more than 80%.
And a mobile phone app which has been used to screen people’s coughs in Kenya for signs of TB.
Plus Claudia speaks to British journalist Mike Powell who was diagnosed a year ago with kidney failure as he prepares for transplant.
Presenter: Claudia Hammond
Producer: Clare Salisbury
Assistant Producer: Jonathan Blackwell
Editor: Holly Squire
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- Wed 3 Jan 2024 20:32GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Online, Americas and the Caribbean, UK DAB/Freeview & Europe and the Middle East only & Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Afghan Radio
- Wed 3 Jan 2024 21:32GMTΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service except Online, Americas and the Caribbean, Europe and the Middle East & UK DAB/Freeview
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