"If we are asked to bear the burden, we should also be given the chance to engage effective dialogue with Iran.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

The WFP also aids home owners faced with the added burden of providing food for refugees from the fighting.

VOA: standard.2009.06.19

She says they will have great difficulty coping with the increased burden of disease and other health problems.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

"And with regard to the burden of disease it more than doubled,it increased over that 16 year period of time about 127 percent."

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

We can't keep shifting a growing burden to future generations. With each passing year, health care costs consume a larger share of our nation's spending, and contribute to yawning deficits that we cannot control,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.13

A recent progress report on HIV/AIDS says Botswana is one of the nine Southern African countries that continue to bear the global burden of HIV/AIDS, with each country having an adult prevalence of more than 10 percent. The government's national AIDS control program has boosted testing,prevention and treatment efforts.

VOA: standard.2010.05.10