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

In the past,the W.H.O.and experts with America's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noted guidance for disease spread on airplanes.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

He says Poe's influence can also be seen in the work of H.G.Wells and Alfred Hitchcock,to name a few.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

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

The W.H.O.is calling on those governments to ban tobacco advertising to the fullest extent possible and to do more to protect women.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

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

During his life, Adair received Special Letters of Recognition from Presidents Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter and George H.W.Bush.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

The W.H.O.offices for the Americas and the Western Pacific reported two out of three of those cases.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

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