[Swprograms] BBCWS Monday previews Nov 28+

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

Health Matters ? HIV/AIDS - What Works? --- The slogan for World AIDS Day this
year is Stop AIDS. Keep the promise. 

To mark World AIDS day, Health Matter reports on how far the world has kept
this promise to some of the world?s poorest countries, in a new two-part
series, HIV/AIDS ? What Works? from Monday 28 November.

Health Matters focuses on AIDS in women on Monday 28 November. The disease is
typically pictured as one that mainly affects men but in Africa it is more
common in women.  Three quarters of the new cases on the African continent in
young people are in women. The virus passes more easily from men to women than
vice versa. For women the burden can be huge as they are likely to pass the
virus onto their babies during childbirth unless they are given treatment.  HIV
can also be transmitted through breast milk.

Health Matters discovers how women can protect themselves from infection
through the use of the female condom. Producer, Deborah Cohen, says "There?s a
great deal of research going on into the development of microbicides, a class
of products that can prevent transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted
diseases in women. We find out how far these products are from the market and
look at the latest thinking on the use of the drug, nevirapine, to prevent
mother to child transmission." Research carried out in Uganda late last year,
that showed the drug stopped babies getting HIV has come under a great deal of
criticism from the international community and new test are now being carried
out.

On Monday 5 December, Health Matters focuses on prevention and treatment,
meeting the scientists who are developing vaccines and discovering how many of
them are in clinical trials. The ABC approach ?abstinence, being faithful and
condom use? is favoured by some of the big donors, particularly in the US. 
Health Matters asks where in the world this approach is making an impact and
looks at the thorny issue of getting the latest drugs to those who need it
most.

Producer/Deborah Cohen

Health Matters:  2 programmes x 25 minutes 
Mondays 28 November and 5 December 
[European stream, webcast] Mon 1006, 1506, 2006, Tue 0206
[Americas stream, webcast] Mon 1506, 2206, Tue 0206

World Book Club ? Vikram Seth

Famous authors from around the world discuss one of their best-known books with
a global audience in World Book Club.

In monthly sessions chaired by Harriett Gilbert, writers talk about the chosen
work, give a reading from it, then throw themselves open to questions and
feedback from a studio audience and letters, phone calls and e-mails from
readers worldwide.

On Monday 28 November, Vikram Seth discusses his 1993 novel A Suitable Boy.
This acclaimed epic of Indian life won the WH Smith Literary Award and the
Commonwealth Writers Prize (Overall Winner, Best Book). 

Opening and closing with a wedding, the book is ostensibly the story of a Hindu
family trying to find a suitable husband for their younger daughter, Lata.

The interwoven stories of four families linked by marriage form the background
for this marital quest. The setting, 1950?s India, is vividly realised: the
enormity of the subcontinent, its overpowering heat, lush gardens, colourful
festivals, and exotic foods. 

Memorable characters abound; not since Dickens has there been such a lively and
idiosyncratic cast crowded into one novel. Drama is provided by the simmering
conflict between Hindu and Muslim, which breaks out unexpectedly throughout the
novel.

Vikram Seth was born in India in 1952. He took his undergraduate degree in
philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford University and was a graduate
student at Stanford and Nanjing Universities. During 1977-1978 he was a Wallace
Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing at Stanford. Presenter/Harriett Gilbert,
Producer/Nick Rankin 

World Book Club: 1 programme x 25 minutes Monday 28 November 
[European stream, webcast] Mon 1032, 1532, 2032, Tue 0232
[American stream, webcast] Mon 1532, 2232, Tue 0232
Listen online http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/index.shtml
(BBC Press Office via Rich Cuff via Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)



		
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