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World Service,24 May 1995,13 mins
More Than A Third of The World's Population Is Sick - WHO
Health MattersAvailable for over a year
WHO's first annual survey, controlling river blindness and tuberculosis in Siberia. The World Health Organisation's first annual survey on global health found that a third of the world's population is sick at any one time with many dying needlessly of treatable illnesses. Also a look at whether success in controlling onchocerciasis (river blindness) has masked its symptoms and whether democracy has opened the door to diseases such as TB.
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