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With mental illness causing more deaths than cancer or heart disease, 39 of the world鈥檚 leading experts in the field have written a series of papers for medical journal, The Lancet, describing what they call the 鈥渟candal in global health today鈥�. We investigate how the gap in people who need treatment and the number who receive it varies greatly throughout the world, and discover what is being done to redress the problem.

Also on the show, the Chilean families recovering from years spent in a colony set up in 1961 by former Nazi, Paul Sch盲fer; a guide to river blindness and why traditional treatments may no longer be working; the Uganda woman living with painful bed sores, or pressure ulcers; an investigation into why rabies, a preventable disease, continues to kill someone in the world every 10 minutes.