PBS NewsHour

Can a cleaner cookstove save lives?

Clip: 02/01/2017 | 5m 43s

Nearly half of the world’s population cooks using stoves that burn fuel like wood or charcoal, creating harmful -- even deadly -- smoke when inhaled. In Ghana, where cooking with wood is the norm, there’s a study underway to find out whether cleaner, more efficient cookstoves can reduce the toxic health effects to those most at risk: women and their babies. Hari Sreenivasan reports.

Aired: 02/01/17

Rating: NR

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