Research films
The MIMBLE project
Severe Acute Malnultrition is a major cause of child mortality. MIMBLE explores whether foods containing beneficial gut bacteria can help restore health.
iKMC – Immediate Kangaroo Mother Care
This film follows a landmark trial showing that low birth weight premature babies are best cared for through skin-to-skin contact with their mothers following birth.
The SHINE trial
This film shows how a groundbreaking multi-country clinical trial changed WHO guidelines and is helping to fight the deadly spread of TB in children.
Covid on the breadline
What does Covid-19 mean for the world’s poorest people? Will they be hit harder by the pandemic – or by the measures put in place designed to slow its spread?
Thanzi la Onse (Health of All)
This film shows how some East African countries use health economics and computer modelling to assign their limited health budgets to save the most lives.
ODYSSEY/PENTA 20
A short film about research to develop dispersible dolutegravir tablets for children living with HIV – making treatment easier to take and the doses smaller.
The AALPHI Study
What is the impact of growing up with HIV and taking medication? This film, made by HIV-positive young people, looks at a major UK study designed to find out.
The TRACT Trial
Severe anaemia is one of the biggest causes of death in African children. This film looks at the surprising results of a major trial testing different treatment strategies.
The INSPIRE studies
HIV treatment can stop mother-to-baby transmission. But how do you ensure women are retained on treatment? Six WHO studies look for answers.
The REALITY trial
This trial showed how giving extra prophylaxis medicines to HIV patients who seek treatment late could save many lives.
The CHAPAS trials
The story of a small Malawian boy with HIV, whose life has been changed by developing pills which are better adapted for children and for use in an African village.
Chiedza’s Song: Growing up with HIV in Zimbabwe
A project to provoke debate in communities and schools, featuring a story told entirely from the perspective of a brave girl growing up with HIV in Harare.
Ending Preventable Stillbirths – A Lancet Special Series
This film tells the stories of two women, in the UK and Malawi, and their common search to come to terms with the stillbirth of a baby.
Anatomy of a clinical trial – FEAST
The story of how a randomised controlled trial in Africa contradicted twenty years of clinical practice in the developed world using IV fluid resuscitation for children with febrile shock.
DART and ARROW Clinical Trials: HIV priorities for Africa
Films about two major clinical trials that pioneered the rollout of HIV treatment in Africa, sharing the moving stories of people who were the first in their communities to receive ART.
Emergency Triage and Treatment (ETAT) in children
A film about a clinical trial exploring how the ETAT process can save lives and boost staff morale, as seen through the lens of a district hospital in Uganda.
