Apr 08 After 25 Years, AIDS Vaccine Research Makes Mid-course Correction By PBS News Hour It took 47 years to develop a polio vaccine, 42 to develop a measles vaccine and 105 for typhoid. So historically speaking, at 24 years in, research on the AIDS vaccine is still young. Continue reading
Mar 31 Vote Rigging Fears Cloud Zimbabwe Election By PBS News Hour As officials began to release election results Monday, showing a split between Zimbabwe's ruling party and the opposition, accusations of President Robert Mugabe's government rigging returns to hide a loss threatened to throw the country into chaos. Continue reading
Mar 26 U.S. Seeks AIDS Vaccine Research Overhaul By Admin, PBS News Hour The head of the federal government's AIDS vaccine research program said Tuesday that the focus should shift from large-scale human vaccine trials back to basic research. Continue reading
Nov 30 Watch Tanzania Implements HIV Prevention Measures as World Marks AIDS Day As part of a U.S.-backed fight against HIV infection in Tanzania, student groups perform plays and stage other events in a bid to develop new techniques that will help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. Susan Dentzer examines these programs on… Continue watching
Nov 20 U.N. Report Reduces AIDS Estimates by Millions By PBS News Hour UNAIDS, the United Nation's group working on the AIDS epidemic, released a report Tuesday admitting that figures on the spread of HIV were over-estimated for the past decade. Continue reading
Nov 07 Watch U.S.-Backed HIV Services Help Boost Rwandan Health Care System A U.S. program to curb AIDS in Africa is working to build the capacity of Rwanda's health care system by training doctors and equiping health facilities. Health correspondent Susan Dentzer continues a series of reports examining the impact of the… Continue watching
Nov 06 Watch In Rwanda, U.S.-Backed Program Improves Access to AIDS Drugs A U.S. program to curb AIDS in Africa is having success providing antiretroviral drugs to AIDS patients in Rwanda -- particularly pregnant women and newborns. Health correspondent Susan Dentzer begins a series of reports examining the impact of the American… Continue watching
Nov 06 Watch Extended Interview: U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Mark Dybul Ambassador Mark Dybul, U.S. Global AIDS coordinator of the president's AIDS initiative known as PEPFAR, talks about the program's impacts, challenges and future. Continue watching
Jun 12 Watch Government of Thailand Battles AIDS Epidemic Thailand's growing AIDS epidemic has reached hundreds of thousands as the government tries to secure assistance. The NewsHour reports on AIDS in the Asian country and the efforts to reduce the disease and its stigma. Continue watching
May 30 President Bush Proposes Doubling Money to Fight AIDS to $30 Billion By Admin, PBS News Hour President Bush on Wednesday asked Congress for $30 billion to renew and double the funding to combat the global spread of AIDS, calling the disease a "modern-day plague."… Continue reading