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The Documentary: A perfect match

Terika Haughton and Ibby Caputo

20/10/2020 GMT

A perfect match

BBC World Service - The Documentary, A perfect match

The inequalities in US healthcare exposed through a deeply personal story

The inequalities in US healthcare exposed through a deeply personal story.

Journalist Ibby Caputo reveals some of the deep inequities in the American medical system through a highly personal story - asking why her friend died nine years after a life-saving bone marrow transplant. Thirteen years ago, Ibby underwent a bone marrow transplant in the US to treat an aggressive form of leukaemia. Because she is of Northern European descent, she believes she had a greater chance of survival, after finding a donor who was "a perfect match."  Her friend, Terika Haughton, who was Jamaican, died of transplant-related causes in 2017. Terika did not have a perfect match, and after she died, Ibby explores how much that lack of a perfect match may have played a part in her death. Through these contrasting stories, Ibby explores race and ethnic disparities in healthcare.

(Photo: Terika Haughton and  Ibby Caputo)

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