Jul 22 UNAIDS: AIDS Funding Faltering at Critical Moment By Talea Miller VIENNA, Austria | Global AIDS leaders continue to call for sustaining and increasing HIV/AIDS funding in the face of the global economic crisis at the International AIDS Conference this week. "For the first time we are seeing funding going down,"… Continue reading
Jul 21 Drug Use Accelerating HIV Epidemic in Eastern Europe By Talea Miller VIENNA, Austria | Europe now has the fastest growing HIV epidemic in the world, due in large part to intravenous drug use, the World Health Organization told the International AIDS Conference in Vienna Wednesday. The epidemic is disproportionately affecting Eastern… Continue reading
Jul 20 Study Shows Gel Holds Promise for Reducing HIV Risk By Talea Miller VIENNA, Austria | In a big step forward for the field of HIV prevention, a new study shows for the first time a microbicide gel provided significant protection for women from HIV infection. Use of a vaginal gel containing the… Continue reading
Jul 20 Watch Study Reveals Potential Breakthrough for Reducing HIV Among Women A two-year study unveiled in Vienna found that HIV infections in females were cut by 39 percent by using a new vaginal gel. Margaret Warner speaks with Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases… Continue watching
Jul 16 Watch New Early Alzheimer's Test Raises Hopes for Improved Treatment Margaret Warner reports on how a new test designed to detect signs of Alzheimer's disease can change the scope of treatments sooner for patients. Continue watching
Jul 15 Port-au-Prince Maternity Clinics Pushed to Limit By Talea Miller It's nearly dusk in Port-au-Prince on a recent sweltering summer evening, and four women at the Health Center of Croix des Bouquets are in the early stages of labor. They are all expected to give birth by morning and will… Continue reading
Jul 15 Watch In Haiti, Mental Health Still a Concern for Many Quake Survivors In the last of his week-long series of reports from Haiti, Ray Suarez examines the mental health problems survivors are having following January's devastating earthquake. Continue watching
Jul 14 Watch In Haiti, Amputees Face Different Kind of Healing As part of his latest series of reports from Haiti, Ray Suarez details the road ahead for citizens who lost limbs after the country's devastating earthquake in January. Continue watching
Jul 13 Watch Preval Assesses Haiti's Quake Recovery Ray Suarez talks with Haitian President Rene Preval about the recovery the country still faces, six months after a devastating earthquake. Continue watching
Jul 12 Watch Politics and Aid Intermingle in Haiti's Recovery Margaret Warner talks with Ray Suarez, who has returned to Haiti six months after a devastating earthquake. Continue watching