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Health Check: 25/07/2012

25/07/2012

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Aids 2012 conference and the clinic for athletes at the 2012 London Olympics.

Claudia Hammond talks to a doctor at the injury frontline of the London Olympics and hears about the big themes and controversies at Aids 2012 in Washington, DC.

OLYMPICS POLYCLINIC
Claudia Hammond talks to orthopaedic surgeon Fares Haddad of University College London on his role at the sports injury frontline at the 2012 London Olympics polyclinic.  

FIDGET
Health Check visits the Fidget – a collaborative project of an artist and doctor, designed to get everyone moving to improve their cardiovascular health.

AIDS 2012
Claudia also hears from two people attending this week's international Aids conference in Washington DC – Sarah Boseley, health editor of the Guardian newspaper, and Dr Sania Nishtar, a doctor specialising in non-communicable chronic disease and leading health policy reformer in Pakistan.

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