A new medication offers a potentially revolutionary disruption in HIV transmission – just as a leading global program to fight the disease gets hit with funding cuts. Also on the program, what can the recent heat wave in India teach the rest of the world about heat adaptation, and how health care systems can deal with rising temperatures world wide. Presenter: Claudia Hammond Producer: Margaret Sessa-Hawkins
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Hello and welcome to Health Check from the BBC.
I'm Claudia Hammond, and every week on this show we look at what's happening in the world of health.
And in the many years I've been presenting this program, it is clear that some things definitely do get better in medicine, but then other things get worse.
And today is no exception.
In a moment, we'll be hearing about the serious threat to health and to life caused by heat waves and how more and more people are affected.
But later on, we'll hear about the injection, which could be a game changer in preventing the spread of HIV for decades to come.
And my guest today is Andrew Green, who's a global health journalist based in Berlin.
Andrew, as someone who covers this area as well, do you find there's this mixture of steps forward and steps back when it comes to global health?