And just as at the regular Olympics, communication among participants from different countries can be an issue at the games.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

Nevertheless, he says Ethiopia is among the countries where AIDS is spreading from several different sources.

VOA: standard.2009.11.15

And some do it better than others. One measure of success is the five-year survival rate, and the lead author of a new study says that number varied dramatically among the different medical centers doing lung transplants.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

It is still worse among nations. Ambassador Neumann, who has just published a memoir of his tenure in Afghanistan, says there are different kinds of corruption and that at least some lower level corruption is to be expected.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17