Before the disaster, it suffered from high death rates among babies and high rates of H.I.V./AIDS,hepatitis and other communicable diseases.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

The World Health Organization says Africa is behind other parts of the world in treating H.I.V./AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

These included questions from Rwandan students about subjects like drug use, H.I.V./AIDS and girls in school who get pregnant.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

Also in the top ten causes were infections, including tuberculosis and H.I.V./AIDS, as well as drowning and fire-related deaths.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

But in the last twenty years, H.I.V.and the collapse of the Soviet Union helped raise death rates in thirty-seven countries worldwide.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

She says the former president and his health minister scared people away from the drugs which suppress H.I.V.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

And a program in Peru sends text messages to patients with H.I.V., reminding them to take their medicines.

VOA: special.2010.05.03

It says one dose of the medicine given to mother and child prevents the spread of H.I.V.

VOA: special.2010.05.24

Along with H.I.V., South Africa also has high rates of diabetes, high blood pressure and tuberculosis.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

Yet treatments and population growth mean that more people than ever are living with H.I.V.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

In addition,almost half a million people who were infected with tuberculosis and with H.I.V.also died.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

Doctors also suggest avoiding tanning salons and U-V tanning beds to prevent skin cancer.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

Volunteers received vaccinations over a period of six months and were tested for H.I.V.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

Treatments and population growth mean more people than ever are living with H.I.V.

VOA: special.2009.12.02