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Health Check: 14/09/2009

14/09/2009

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Zambia obscenity trial. Male circumcision to help tackle HIV.Bollywood and mental illness.

News from an obscenity trial currently going on in Zambia.  Male Circumcision – is it the answer to Africa’s HIV problem?  Bollywood and mental Illness, how studying cinema can help psychiatry.

Is a photograph of a woman giving birth, pornography?  That is the question currently being discussed in the law courts of Zambia.  Claudia Hammond talks to BBC Correspondent Jonah Fisher about the latest news from this extraordinary case.  

Could male circumcision be the solution to Africa’s HIV problem?  Letlhogile Lucas reports from Botswana about a huge campaign hoping to get half a million young men circumcised to help reduce HIV rates.  But is male circumcision alone the answer?  Claudia talks to two HIV experts about why this is still a controversial subject.  

And Bollywood and mental illness, what psychiatrists can learn from studying cinema.

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