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Rx for Survival Campaign
Rx for SurvivalTM is a groundbreaking multimedia project that explores the vital - yet often invisible - role that public health plays in enhancing our lives. This project will advance your understanding of global health and offer ways each of us can make our world a stronger, healthier place.
The Rx for Child Survival campaign focuses on improving the health of the world's children by implementing five inexpensive, efective health interventions.
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This television series will premiere on PBS Tuesday November 1, 2005 with six compelling one-hour programs airing across three nights, November 1-3 (check local listings). The programs will introduce the dramatic history of public health pioneers, celebrating their extraordinary struggles, achievements and hard-won lessons. The series will then come full circle to illuminate the state of the world's health today.
- Program 1: Disease Warriors
Chronicles the groundbreaking work of early researchers, such as the famed scientist Louis Pasteur, who unmasked germs as the source of illness and developed the first vaccines — one of public health's greatest triumphs.
- Program 2: Rise of the Superbugs
Chronicles the discoveries of antibiotics and penicillin and more "wonder drugs", as well as the growing threat posed by "superbugs" — strains of germs, such as tuberculosis and staph, that are resistant to our best antibiotics.
- Program 3: Delivering the Goods
Explores the great paradox of global health: at the dawn of the 21st century, we can prevent, treat or cure most of the deadliest diseases known to humankind — and yet millions die needlessly every year because the benefits of modern medicine and public health fail to reach them.
- Program 4: Deadly Messengers
Recounts the stories of the heroic scientists and health workers who battled against the mosquito, and examines current efforts to control mosquito and other vector-borne diseases - including the development of new vaccines to protect the world's most vulnerable populations.
- Program 5: Back to the Basics
Explores the vital connection between health and the essential requirements that so many people in developed countries take for granted. Also examines how America's overabundance of nutrition — in the form of overconsumption — is causing a host of health concerns, such as obesity and adult-onset diabetes, which are beginning to spread to the rest of the world.
- Program 6: How Safe Are We?
This episode examines critical, emerging threats — such as avian flu — and the pressing need to strengthen public health systems and leadership worldwide.
Currently, almost 11 million children die each year, largely in poor counties, because they do not have access to basic health intervention. The international community, including the United States, has agreed to strengthen their commitment to reducing the mortality rate among children under five by two-thirds. With a goal of helping to meet that commitment, Rx for Child Survival has been created to raise awareness about the fact that children bear the brunt of global health problems, and will offer ways for Americans to give time and voice their own opinions about global health issues.
Experts agree that six million of the children under age five who die each year would have a much better chance at life if they had access to simple, inexpensive, basic health interventions. The Rx for Child Survival campaign will focus on five of those life-saving interventions for the world's neediest children to dramatically increase their chances of survival.
- Vaccinations to figh childhood diseases, including measeles and tetanus
- Insecticide-treated netting to stop mosquitos that carry malaria
- Vitamin A and other micronutrients to help fight infection and prevent nutritional deficiences
- Oral rehydration packets to help reduce diarrhea-realated illness and deaths
- Antibiotics to figh pneumonia and antimalarial drugs
Additionally, where it is appropriate, pregnant women and new mothers will be educated about the health value of breastfeeding their infants.
Portions of this article are reprinted with permission from material ©/TM WGBH Educational Foundation and Vulcan Productions, Inc.
As a reminder, this information should not be relied on as
medical advice and is not intended to replace the advice of your child’s pediatrician.
Please read our full disclaimer.
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