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

Researchers say they have found a way to extend the storage life of a drug used to treat H.I.V.

VOA: special.2010.05.24

Fran?oise Barre-Sinoussi was honored with another scientist for research leading to the discovery of H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

The idea is that mothers would pour the liquid into the baby's mouth as part of an H.I.V.treatment program.

VOA: special.2010.05.24

In Kenya,a project aims to educate girls about H.I.V.prevention while helping them stay in school during their monthly periods.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

If they had, they would have been tested to see if they needed treatment to prevent an infection like H.I.V.or hepatitis.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

That way,H.I.V.-infected women could have plenty of time to get the pouch from a health care provider early in their pregnancy.

VOA: special.2010.05.24

One was the ability of the vaccine to prevent infections from the human immunodeficiency virus, better known as H.I.V.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

The drug is nevirapine. If it is given within seventy-two hours after birth, it can often protect babies from H.I.V.

VOA: special.2010.05.24

The experts say estimates of new H.I.V.infections are down by about fifteen percent in Africa, south of the Sahara Desert.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

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

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

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

In other new research, a study has found that circumcision does not decrease the risk that H.I.V.positive men will infect women.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

"For example in Rwanda, where cell phone-based technologies are being used to keep track of dispensation of drugs to patients with H.I.V.

VOA: special.2010.05.03

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

A new study in the journal Nature has shown some hopeful results from an experimental gel that might protect women from 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

The event has not taken place here since nineteen ninety because of restrictions against visitors with H.I.V.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

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

VOA: special.2010.05.24

South Africa has more than five million people infected with H.I.V., the largest number of any country.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

The American program known as PEPFAR provided the H.I.V.information to include in kits with the napkins.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

In one study,infected mothers began to take three anti-H.I.V.drugs while breastfeeding for up to six months.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

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

VOA: special.2010.04.28

Two studies showed ways in which anti-H.I.V.drugs could permit infected women to breastfeed their newborns with less risk of passing the virus to them.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

It says H.I.V.-related deaths appear to have reached their highest point in two thousand four.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

Also at the conference, scientists presented the latest findings about new mothers infected with H.I.V.

VOA: special.2009.07.29