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  title info:
    title: Survival
    part number: [Episode 3]
    part name: The plant that cures malaria
  name:
    name part: SW Pictures Ltd
    role:
      role term: film distributor.
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Documentary television programs.
  genre: Documentaires télévisés.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (45 minutes)
  abstract: Malaria kills a child in Africa every 30 seconds. The disease is both the cause and effect of Africa's poverty. But in Uganda, a pioneering farmer, Clovis Kabaseke, believes he has an answer to both problems, using the Chinese herb Artemisia. Artemisinin-based Combination Therapies – are one of the best new hopes for defeating Malaria. Clovis hopes that by encouraging African farmers to grow the plant, he can cure both poverty and this deadly disease. Television documentary produced for the BBC. Every year up to 500 million people contract malaria. Of these, around one million die. Cecilia Awor is worried that her four month old baby son Simon may soon join this unlucky number. He has all the symptoms of malaria. But Cecilia is fortunate. Her neighbour, Jimmy Magara, is a Community Medicine Distributor. Cecilia takes Simon to Jimmy for diagnosis. Jimmy confirms he is suffering from malaria and needs immediate treatment. The urgency is compounded by the fact that Cecilia lives in Eastern Uganda, where some of the deadliest strains of malaria are found. Malaria is carried by mosquitoes. Living in their saliva are thousands of malaria parasites, which enter the bloodstream when the mosquito bites a human. They travel around the body until they reach the liver, where they invade the liver cells and start to replicate. Eventually their numbers are so large that the liver cells burst and release million of malaria parasites back into the bloodstream causing fever and death. Luckily for Simon, Jimmy has just received supplies of Coartem, the most effective anti-malaria drug available on the Community Medicine Distributor scheme. The drug is free for any child under 5-years of age, though it is expensive to manufacture and so is far more widely available when manufactured locally. The key ingredient of Coartem – a chemical named Artemisinin – can be extracted from the Artemisia plant, a crop which can be farmed easily in Uganda. Were the drugs only available at a cost, or a…
  target audience: adult
  note: SW Pictures.
  note: Title from resource description page (viewed May 10, 2019).
  note: In English.
  subject:
    topic: Malaria
    topic: Chemotherapy
    geographic: Uganda
  subject:
    topic: Malaria
    topic: Patients
    geographic: Uganda
  subject:
    topic: Artemisinin
    geographic: Uganda
  subject:
    topic: Poor
    topic: Health and hygiene
    geographic: Uganda
  subject:
    topic: Poor
    topic: Medical care
    geographic: Uganda
  subject:
    topic: Public health
    geographic: Uganda
  subject:
    topic: Paludisme
    topic: Chimiothérapie
    geographic: Ouganda
  subject:
    topic: Paludisme
    topic: Patients
    geographic: Ouganda
  subject:
    topic: Artémisinine
  subject:
    topic: Pauvres
    topic: Santé et hygiène
    geographic: Ouganda
  subject:
    topic: Pauvres
    topic: Soins médicaux
    geographic: Ouganda
  subject:
    topic: Santé publique
    geographic: Ouganda
  subject:
    topic: Artemisinin
  subject:
    topic: Malaria
    topic: Chemotherapy
  subject:
    topic: Poor
    topic: Health and hygiene
  subject:
    topic: Poor
    topic: Medical care
  subject:
    topic: Public health
  subject:
    geographic: Uganda
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Academic Video Online
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: ALSTP
    record creation date: 190510
    record change date: 20241201233151.1
    record identifier: in00005587946
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng