The Rx for Survival Web site gives users the chance to learn more about global health and to get involved in giving children around the world a fighting chance at life. The site will continue to grow in breadth and depth through the premiere of the broadcast series in November 2005.
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At the center of the project is a compelling six-hour documentary airing on PBS on November 1-3, as well as a companion web site, both co-produced by the award winning team of the WGBH/NOVA Science Unit and Vulcan Productions.

In addition, WGBH/NOVA Science Unit and Vulcan Productions have created Rx for Child Survival, a campaign to raise awareness about the fact that children bear the brunt of the world's global health problems andwill offer ways for Americans to give time and voice their own opinions about global health issues. The campaign will also encourage people everywhere to give money to improve the health of the world's neediest children.

This week, WGBH announces several new features have been added to the Rx for Survival web site at pbs.org/rxforsurvival

The site gives users the chance to learn more about global health and become involved in efforts to improve the health of people around the world.

Visitors to the Rx for Survival site can:

• Watch a preview video clip of the series, as well as a PSA for the campaign
• Subscribe to the Rx for Survival e-mail newsletter or browse back issues in the archive
• Spread the word about global health by sending an ePostCard
• Learn what it's like on the frontlines of global health from personal accounts in Dispatches from the Field
• Explore an overview of the Rx For Survival project
• Ensure that children in need receive basic health interventions by making a secure donation to the Rx for Child Survival campaign, facilitated by international fulfillment partners CARE and Save the Children.
• Discover ways to be involved on both local and global levels and find links to help make it all happen.
• Follow links to our partners' sites to learn how to speak out among friends and neighbors, write to the media and contact your local officials.
• Celebrate health with the Global Health calendar - a list of important dates related to the campaign, to local and national campaign events, and to world health in general.

• An atlas that illuminates key factors influencing global  health in countries around the world
• Stories of global health champions
• Portraits of killer infectious diseases
• The politics of global health
• Educational materials for middle and high school teachers and students with a focus on both science and social studies

WGBH/NOVA Science Unit
WGBH Boston is America's preeminent public broadcasting producer, the source of fully one-third of PBS's prime-time lineup, along with some of public television's best-known lifestyle and children's programs and many public radio favorites. One of its premiere programs, NOVA, is a production of the WGBH/NOVA Science Unit. Now in its 31st year of broadcasting, NOVA is the most popular science series on American television and is seen in more than 100 countries. It is also one of television's most acclaimed series, having won every major television award, most of them many times over. NOVA's programs are used extensively in classrooms around the country and the NOVA website is consistently the most trafficked on pbs.org. In 1998, the National Science Board of the National Science Foundation awarded NOVA its first-ever Public Service Award. NOVA has won every major broadcasting award, including the Emmy, the Peabody, the AAAS Westinghouse Science Journalism Award, and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Gold Baton. 

For more information on WGBH and NOVA, respectively, visit www.wgbh.org and www.pbs.org/nova.

Vulcan Productions
Vulcan Productions is the independent film production company founded by investor and philanthropist Paul G. Allen in 1997. Vulcan Productions devotes itself exclusively to producing independent films of unique vision and artistic quality. With feature film projects such as Hard Candy, Far From Heaven, The Safety of Objects, and award-winning documentaries such as Martin Scorsese's The Blues, Evolution, Black Sky: The Race for Space and Black Sky: Winning The X-Prize, the company commits its talent and resources to creating films of substance and enduring significance. Through its collaborative partnerships with established and emerging filmmakers, Vulcan Productions explores creative opportunities that result in engaging and inspirational storytelling. 

Visit Vulcan Productions online at http://www.vulcanproductions.com/

For additional information contact Lisa Cerqueira, WGBH Boston, at Lisa_Cerqueira(--at--)wgbh.org

Full URL:  http://www.pbs.org/rxforsurvival/

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