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Medicine Now in Brazil

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

Brazil aspires to join the leading industrialised nations of the west. Yet like many other Third World countries it remains encumbered by malaria, yellow-fever, schistosomiasis, Chagas disease. And now AIDS threatens too. Geoff Watts reports on how Brazil is attempting to fend off tropical diseases and improve the health care of its people.
Producer JULIAN BROWN

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Geoff Watts
Producer:
Julian Brown
Source: Radio Times

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