Deals with malaria in New Guinea and research to find a cure. The film travels with a medical anthropologist to the rain-forest clad Schrader mountains where the Hagahai people live. The Hagahai people are being treated for malaria and other related infections transmitted through contact with the malaria-rife coast due to new road and air links. Researchers are looking at the way immunity to malaria works while treating people like the Hagahai.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
304551
Language
English
Subject categories
Documentary → Documentary films - Australia
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Papua New Guinea - Social conditions
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Malaria
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Malaria - Prevention
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)