The 96th Street divide: why there’s so much diabetes in Harlem
In East Harlem, four times as many adults have diabetes as in the neighbouring Upper East Side. Meera Senthilingam meets the New Yorkers stopping poverty being a death sentence.
Audio producer: Meera Senthilingam
Fact checker: Laura Dawes
Editor: Mun-Keat Looi
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