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REGION: Africa
TOPIC: Health
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IN-DEPTH COVERAGE
AIDS in Africa: Focus on Rwanda and Tanzania
The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, is designed to funnel $15 billion over five years toward HIV prevention and treatment efforts in African and other countries. In the summer of 2007, NewsHour health correspondent Susan Dentzer traveled to Rwanda and Tanzania to report on the program's effects and challenges.
BACKGROUND REPORTS
Woman in Rwanda
November 6, 2007
Report
Anti-AIDS Efforts Making Strides in Rwanda

The U.S. PEPFAR program is having success providing antiretroviral drugs to AIDS patients in Rwanda -- particularly pregnant women and newborns.

Report: HIV Services Boost Rwanda Health System (11/7/07)
Extended Interview: Mark Dybul, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator

Actors recording HIV-prevention advertisement
November 30, 2007
Report
Prevention Programs in Tanzania Target Behavior

Student groups perform plays and stage other events to promote the ABC message of Abstinence, Be faithful and use Condoms. The groups hope role-playing and other techniques will help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS.

Video: Tanzanian student reads a poem about AIDS.

NewsHour health correspondent Susan Dentzer conducting an interview
October 23, 2007
Slide Show
People and Places of Rwanda and Tanzania

The NewsHour's journey to Rwanda and Tanzania brought the reporting team face-to-face with families coping with HIV and remnants of the Rwandan genocide of 1994.
PEPFAR-supported clinic in Botswana
November 14, 2007
INSIDER FORUM
Experts on AIDS Address Your Questions

U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Mark Dybul and the Global AIDS Alliance's Paul Zeitz answered your questions about how the program is functioning and what more needs to be done.
ADDITIONAL FEATURES
  Main: AIDS in Africa:
  Rwanda and Tanzania
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  People and Places of
  Rwanda and Tanzania
For Students and Teachers
  Lesson Plan
  AIDS Today
  Student Voice
  Being Young and
  HIV Positive in America
NPR: Thembi's AIDS Diary
Thembi Ngubane NPR's "All Things Considered" looks at Thembi Ngubane's story in South Africa.
Frontline: The Age of AIDS
Map of Africa Frontline provides milestones in the AIDS epidemic, statistics and maps.
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