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World Service,12 Oct 1999,23 mins

Living With Mental Illness

Health Matters

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Mental illness is discussed at a Namibian conference, and an outbreak of polio in Iraq. The programme looks at the impact of mental illness on families around the world, with a report from Zimbabwe and England. Also the United Nations set a target of eradicating polio by 2000, but an outbreak in Iraq shows how difficult this may be to achieve.

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