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World Service,29 Dec 2014,55 mins

I Got an Infection and Lost my Limbs

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Alex Lewis is a British man who caught an infection and within weeks had lost all his limbs. He tells Jo Fidgen why he's had a brilliant year since it happened. Lebo Malepa is a South African man who started a community bicycle tour business to show tourists the real Soweto. Joselyn Dumas is an award winning Ghanaian actor and television personality. In her latest film 'Love or Something Like That' she takes on the role of a surgeon who contracts HIV. Kartik Sawhney is a blind Indian computer scientist who has created software that "sings" graphs to blind students.

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