Can a fast-food business model save lives in Africa?

Can the quality of healthcare in developing nations be transformed by the same principle that makes fast food such a success here? NOW ON PBS travels to Kenya to continue ongoing coverage of an enterprising idea: franchising not burger and donut shops, but health services and drugs in rural Africa.

American businessmen have been teaming with African entrepreneurs to spread for-profit clinics around the country in the hopes of providing quality, affordable medical care to even Kenya's poorest people. NOW chronicles how the Kenyan facilities weathered recent violent unrest, as well as the program's expansion into Rwanda.

Also on the show, a massive program to dispense medicine for people with HIV/AIDS in poor countries is changing lives and restoring hope. A small team of photographers is capturing those amazing transformations on film, hoping their compelling images will bring attention to the importance of drug access in the developing world.

The NOW ON PBS Web site (www.pbs.org/now ) will feature personal stories and more photos from the front lines of the fight for global health.