This is the VOA Special English Development Report. People carry a gay pride flag during a march in Mexico City on August 2, 2008 The seventeenth International AIDS Conference opened Sunday in the Mexican capital, Mexico City. About twenty-five thou...
By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 01 May 2007 Starting Tuesday, Cameroon will offer free anti-retroviral drug treatment to all eligible HIV-positive people in the country. The program, funded by the government and various external groups, aims to reach as many...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 12 October 2006 Six Palestinians, including four militants, have been killed in an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip. The raid is part of the background of Israeli efforts to free a soldier kidnapped by Palestinian gunm...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 19 September 2006 Nigeria Nigeria's military and civil aviation have suffered a series of disasters over the past two decades. Hundreds of lives have been lost in crashes. Sunday's crash of a military plane has renewed conc...
By Peter Heinlein United Nations 15 May 2006 Internationally-acclaimed actress Naomi Watts has taken a volunteer job as a special United Nations envoy on HIV/AIDS. Watts has just returned from a fact-...
DEVELOPMENT REPORT – November 25, 2002: Gates Foundation Fights AIDS in India By Jill Moss This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The richest man in the world has given India one-hundre...