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The Bitter Pill: International Drugs Companies and the Poor

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Malaria kills millions every year, and workers lose countless days to its raging fevers. In the last of three programmes Isabel Hilton examines the arguments forwarded by public health critics and activists who suggest that if malaria sufferers were well-off rather than destitute, the big pharmaceutical companies would have found a way to control the disease.

(Repeated Sunday 5pm)

Contributors

Reporter:
Isabel Hilton
Producer:
Sue Davies

BBC Radio 4 FM

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