The disappearing mid-life crisis

消失的中年危机

Health Check

2025-11-20

26 分钟
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Global health journalist Andrew Green has been looking at the impact of US funding cuts on the global HIV response, and reports his findings from Botswana about the impact is it having on HIV and AIDS services there, and what new agreements may be reached on healthcare funding. New research shows that the trend in human happiness is changing, with young people now experiencing more unhappiness than those in middle-age. Claudia speaks to Alex Bryson, Professor of Quantitative Social Sciences at University College London, to find out what is driving this change. How can we reduce phantom limb pain in war amputations? Professor of anaesthesiology and pain medicine at Northwestern University, Doctor Steven Cohen, explains how Botox injections are helping Ukrainian patients recover post-amputation and improving their quality of life. A new law in Karnataka, India will allow women a day of paid menstrual leave each month – but how is it being received? Plus, the remarkable HPV vaccination success story, and what that means for global cervical cancer rates. Presenter: Claudia Hammond Producers: Helena Selby & Georgia Christie
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  • Hello and welcome to Health Check from the BBC.

  • I'm Claudia Hammond here for the next half an hour with our selection of what we all need to know about global health this week.

  • Now to help me today I have global health journalist Andrew Green who joins me from Berlin.

  • How are you?

  • You're just off a plane from Botswana.

  • What were you doing there?

  • Yes, I just got back from looking at the impact of US funding cuts there.

  • Well, we'll talk about that a bit more in a moment.

  • And if you look at happiness across the lifespan,

  • it used to be the case that on average people had higher well-being when they were young,

  • then their well-being went down in middle age and back up again when they got older.

  • But now that pattern has all changed.

  • And what else do you have for us, Andrew?

  • We'll be looking at a successful vaccination campaign against human papillomavirus later.

  • plus how Botox injections are helping to reduce pain in Ukrainian soldiers who've lost limbs and one Indian state introduces a day's menstrual leave a month for all women with formal jobs.

  • So we are starting with Botswana Wear in the wake of cuts to age from the US announced at the start of this year.

  • Three days of bilateral talks with the US on funding for healthcare are just beginning.

  • And Andrew, you are literally just back from Botswana.

  • What is Botswana hoping to achieve?

  • in these talks.