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A-OK? / TVE International ; BBC Worldwide ; written and produced by Di Tatham.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Life (Bullfrog Films) ; 26.
- Life ; 26
- Language:
- English
- Multiple languages
- Subjects (All):
- ActionAid (Organization).
- Globalization.
- Globalization--Social aspects.
- Vitamin A deficiency in children--Developing countries.
- Vitamin A deficiency in children.
- Vitamin A deficiency--Prevention.
- Vitamin A deficiency.
- Children--Health and hygiene--Developing countries.
- Children.
- Children--Health and hygiene--Ghana.
- Children--Health and hygiene--Uganda.
- Children--Health and hygiene--India.
- Children--Health and hygiene--Guatemala.
- Plant genetic engineering--Developing countries.
- Plant genetic engineering.
- Rice--Genetic engineering.
- Rice.
- Crops--Genetic engineering.
- Crops.
- Public health--Ghana.
- Public health.
- Public health--Uganda.
- Public health--India.
- Children--Health and hygiene.
- India.
- Public health--Guatemala.
- Guatemala.
- Uganda.
- Ghana.
- Developing countries.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (25 min.) : digital, sound, color.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Oley, Pennsylvania] : [Distributed by] Bullfrog Films, [2017]
- Language Note:
- In English and various languages with English voiceovers.
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- Vitamin A is essential for the functioning of the human immune system. In industrialized countries, foods like flour or sugar have been fortified with it for decades. But it's not the same picture in some developing countries, where children with Vitamin A deficiency run the risk of dying from common childhood illnesses like measles. The cost of ensuring all children receive enough Vitamin A is peanuts: capsules cost just 2 cents each, but improve children's chances of survival by as much as 25%. This episode of Life looks at the prospects for two very different Vitamin A distribution programs in Ghana and Guatemala, and asks whether the best way to ensure all children have access to the nutrients that can help them lead healthy, fulfilled lives isn't new, genetically-modified crops -- like the experimental Vitamin-A modified 'golden rice' currently being developed in Professor Ingo Potrykus' lab in Switzerland, as part of an initiative supported by the Rockefeller Foundation.
- Participant:
- Narrator, Lucy Briers.
- Credits:
- Executive producer, Jenny Richards ; series producer, Luke Gawin ; series editor, Robert Lamb.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced in 2000.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed April 24, 2017).
- Publisher Number:
- bf-lsaok Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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