2025-07-17
26 分钟Hello and welcome to Health Check from the BBC.
I'm Claudia Hammond and we have scoured the medical news to bring you the latest on what's good to know in the world of health this week.
Now imagine going for a routine blood test only to discover 15 years later that you are the only person in the world with a new blood type.
This is what happened to a woman in Guadeloupe and to discuss that and more I'm joined by BBC health reporter Smita Mundasad.
Now there's something about blood groups that's always fascinating isn't there?
They are so fascinating
like you want to know about your own but you also want to know what the people around you have and what you do in an emergency.
I find them really fascinating.
Well we'll have more on that later and what else do you have for us?
I've been looking at a study investigating a skin swab test that could pick up Parkinson's by looking at the smell of people's skin.
Yeah this is fascinating and we'll hear from people on the ground in Malawi who are trying to keep Empox at bay.
But before all that,
there's been a big announcement this week about the twice yearly injection that can prevent HIV,
an injection which some claim could eventually end HIV for good.
It's called Lenacapavir,
and you may remember us talking on health check about the very successful results of trials last year.
And now the World Health Organization is urging governments to make it available to people.
So Smita, first of all, how big a deal is this injection?
This is a huge deal.
The World Health Organization has said that it could transformative for the prevention of HIV and people working in the field people who have HIV have been watching for announcements on Lenacapavir really closely