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While the HIV infection rate for residents of India's cities has stabilized, increasing numbers of people in rural areas are becoming infected with the virus that causes AIDS. Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on efforts to stem the HIV/AIDS epidemic…

In the mid-nineties, the World Bank estimated 1.2 million Brazilians would be infected with HIV by the year 2000. But the estimate is half that amount. Susan Dentzer looks at some of the innovative government-sponsored prevention programs that Brazilian officials…

Members of Congress started work on compromise legislation to provide a Medicare prescription drug program. Ray Suarez discusses the differences between the House and Senate versions of the proposal with Robert Reischauer, president of the Urban Institute, and Robert Laszewski,…

Experts discuss the AIDS epidemic facing African countries today and the impact of President George Bush's pledge to provide funding to help the African nation of Botswana fight its AIDS crisis.

Health Correspondent Susan Dentzer reports on President Bush's trip to the African nation of Botswana and the AIDS crisis facing the small but prosperous nation.

Ray Suarez discusses the impact of a new FDA ruling, requiring increased disclosure of trans fats on food labels, with Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, and Rhona Applebaum, executive vice president of…