Malaria

Latest Episodes

• The Vaccine Challenge

  Part two of two. An insight into how the medical establishment and policy-makers on the world stage are trying to control the disease, examining the efforts of Florida health officials to contain an unexpected outbreak, and how scientists at Oxford University are working toward developing a malaria vaccine

• Fever Road

  Part one of two. Report on the fight against the disease, beginning with the story of Peter Kombo, chief of Kiagware village in the Kisii highlands of Kenya. The programme charts his struggles through the malaria season, as he tries to get help from the local authorities for his villagers, many of whom are dangerously sick

• Return to Fever Road

  An extended version of the original film, charting Peter Kombo's struggle to relieve his village of Kiagware in Kenya of the disease, trying to gain more help from local authorities to help treat his people who have fallen sick. The programme charts the changing attitudes toward the illness which are now present following the first transmission of the film