Show on tonight

I got this email and will be taping this.
I think it should interest all of you to watch
it.

Should be good for the epi section of AP Human Geography.



Greetings!
>
> This is to let you know of a ground breaking
> six-hour PBS series on global
> public health entitled Rx for Survival which begins
> November 1 on your
> local PBS television station. Complete information
> and an extraordinary
> seven minute background clip on the series can be
> seen at
> www.pbs.org/wgbh/rxforsurvival/
>
> The website provides the following background
> information:  “From vaccines
> to antibiotics, clean water to nutrition, bio-terror
> threats to the
> HIV/AIDS pandemic, the six-part series Rx for
> Survival tells the
> compelling stories of global health champions and
> the communities they
> strive to protect. Employing both historical
> dramatic sequences and
> poignant current documentary stories, the series
> will showcase key
> milestones in public health history, such as the
> eradication of smallpox,
> alongside modern and future challenges, including
> SARS, a potential global
> flu pandemic and recovery from the Asian tsunami
> catastrophe.
>
> Brad Pitt narrates, and Experts including Jeffrey
> Sachs, the Director of
> the Earth Institute at Columbia University; author
> Laurie Garrett; Harvey
> Fineberg, President of the National Academies of
> Sciences Institute of
> Medicine; Nils Daulaire, President of the Global
> Health Council; and
> Donald Hopkins, the Associate Executive Director of
> the Carter Center,
> will guide viewers through the ins and outs of this
> complex but
> fascinating story.”  Funding for Rx for Survival — A
> Global Health
> Challenge was provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates
> Foundation and The
> Merck Company Foundation.