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
Tanzania's new Covid prevention measures
India’s Covid-19 surge
Medical mysteries with neurologist Suzanne O’Sullivan
Chile’s vaccine roll out
Mental Health and the long term implications of Covid
Can we eradicate leprosy?
Covid vaccines for children
Working with disability
Can the common cold prevent Covid?
Combatting mental illness
Vaccine and blood clots
Covid-19 vaccination in Africa
Do vaccines cure Long Covid?
Modern medicine versus the spirits
Pregnancy and Covid-19 vaccination
Africa’s blood shortage
Long Covid: solving the mysteries
Sexual health, Covid-19 vaccines
Covid surge in Mozambique
Superbugs and superfoods
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