Award-Winning BBC World Series “Kill or Cure?” to focus on Medicine for Kala-Azar
The story of the development of Paromomycin IM Injection is told through a new Rockhopper TV and BBC World documentary, to air as part of the series Kill or Cure? on Sunday June 3 and available to watch via streaming video on the OneWorld Health website.
BBC World traveled to Bihar, India, three years ago to film the earlier trials of the new medicine, and produced a documentary film Kill or Cure? kala azar, also available for viewing on the OneWorld Health website. Now they have revisited the initiative on location in India to track progress, and offer the results through the film Kill or Cure? Visceral Leishmaniasis. The documentary features OneWorld Health’s first drug product, Paromomycin IM Injection, and what OneWorld Health and its partners are doing in the fight against kala-azar.
Kill or Cure? Visceral Leishmaniasis will be broadcast on BBC World beginning Sunday, June 3. Below are the tentative air dates and times for the following week. Please check the BBC World television listings to confirm when it will air in your time zone.
- Sunday, June 3 at 6:30am GMT and 5:30pm GMT
- Monday, June 4 at 10:30am GMT
- Tuesday, June 5 at 4:30pm GMT
- Wednesday, June 6 at 2:30am and 8:30am GMT
BBC World programs may be viewed in more than 200 countries, but do not air in the UK. In the US BBC World can be viewed only on cable in New York (Cablevision and Real Networks) and Texas (Grande Communications).
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