Quest for a Cure

Testing, Testing

Monday 3 April 2006 20:00-20:30 (Radio 4 FM)

Peter Day follows the efforts of one of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies to develop a treatment for HIV/Aids.

For almost 20 years, hundreds of scientists at Sandwich in Kent have been working to bring a new HIV/Aids drug to the marketplace. The BBC has been tracking them for the past five years, and was given unique access to make this radio diary of a drug. But just as the drug moves into the global test phase, rival treatments also racing to the marketplace hit trouble. Is it right to trust big business to keep us healthy?

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