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Medicines should be made available to any person who had hiv or aids in our country, to save their lives as well. 20 years later, and i can say to you that our struggle probably saved 5 million lives because today, 5.5 million people have access to antiretroviral medicine, and you can put that down to the struggles we waged in those years to make this a right for all people. mark heywood on the struggle for affordable drugs. now to china, where, in the 1970s, the antimalarial drug artemisinin was developed by a small team of scientists. one of the scientists, professor lang linfu, spoke to wit...

Professor lang linfu, spoke to witness history about the breakthrough. mosquito buzzes. one of man's mortal enemies. 90% of all malaria cases are in africa. in the americas and in asia, malaria has re—emerged in drug—resistant forms. translation: in the 19605 and early '70s, there - was a serious outbreak of malaria. the drug available at the time was chloroquine, but resistance to it was already very strong. chairman mao said the population of china has survived for thousands of years relying on traditional chinese medicine. he said there must be a traditional cure for malaria. he told us...

In those years to make this a right for all people. mark heywood on the struggle for affordable drugs. now to china, where, in the 1970s, the antimalarial drug artemisinin was developed by a small team of scientists. one of the scientists, professor lang linfu, spoke to witness history about the breakthrough. mosquito buzzes. one of man's mortal enemies. 90% of all malaria cases are in africa. in the americas and in asia, malaria has re—emerged in drug—resistant forms. translation: in the 19605 and early '705, there - was a serious outbreak of malaria. the drug available at the time was ch...

The steps that have to be taken to comply with the order that we make should be taken without delay. it was another very, very emotional moment, and after we'd won, we were in a much stronger position to say that these medicines should be made available to any person who had hiv or aids in our country, to save their lives as well. 20 years later, and i can say to you that our struggle probably saved 5 million lives because today, 5.5 million people have access to antiretroviral medicine, and you can put that down to the struggles we waged in those years to make this a right for all people. mar...