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World Service,20 Jul 1999,23 mins

Hope For Babies Born With HIV

Health Matters

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Babies with HIV, music as medicine, and how cyclist Lance Armstrong beat cancer. Over 2,000 babies are born each day with HIV but a new treatment is helping newborns in Kampala. The programme also looks at the therapeutic effects of music and how one leading cyclist fought back from cancer to win the Tour de France.

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