World Chronicle 976: Mark Young, UNICEF

Tony Jenkins interviews Dr. Mark Young, Senior Health Advisor for UNICEF, for World Chronicle program 976.

• Categories: News & Features / Features / World Chronicle
• Video Length: 00:28:04
• Production Date: 11 May 2005
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: ALAN CAPPER; BESSAN VIKOU; MARK YOUNG; TONY JENKINS
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: CHILD MORTALITY; CHILDREN; DISEASE PREVENTION; MALARIA; PUBLIC HEALTH
• Geographic Subject: AFRICA
• MAMS Id: 2186387
• Parent Id: 825009

Description

World Malaria Report

In the half hour it takes to do this show, sixty children in Africa will die and 3,000 more will be dead by the end of the day because of malaria.

With new combination drugs and insecticide nets that can effectively protect and prevent the spread of malaria, why is this disease still prevalent in Africa? Are mosquito nets effective? Can mosquitos build up resistance to these new drugs? And how can the Roll Back Malaria partnership halve this disease by 2010?

These are some of the questions that will be discussed on this edition of World Chronicle with Dr. Mark Young, Senior Health Advisor for UNICEF.

• Scripts: File; 976.pdf (36.38 KB)