From Docklands to Dhaka - World

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Channel: Journeyman Pictures · 2008 · People & Blogs

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'Of course, we all want everyone to have everything, but surely the first priority is the basics of health care for everyone,' says Clare Short, Secretary of State at the Department for International Development (DFID), UK, in From Docklands to Dhaka, the latest film in TVE's Life series. 'But in most developing countries that's not the case.' This Life programme explores the inseparable links between poverty and health and discovers that a prospering global economy doesn't necessarily equate with good health.

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