To others,they are enemies of the public health in a time of what the World Health Organization calls a "global obesity epidemic."

VOA: special.2010.04.12

Tuesday was World AIDS Day, and the latest report on the epidemic provided some reason to celebrate.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

Experts credit the good news in the report at least in part to prevention programs, not just the natural progress of the epidemic.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

Yet the report points out that while the AIDS epidemic is changing, prevention programs are not.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

Doctor Breman remembers how William Close's planning and administration helped the medical team end the epidemic.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

Scientists also completed similar research on victims of the Spanish flu epidemic in nineteen eighteen.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

"All what we've been able to gain in the past with the access to clean water, expanded immunization programs were totally reversed with the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa.

VOA: special.2011.07.20

There is growing progress against the epidemic of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

VOA: special.2011.06.08

He heard two other passengers talking about the epidemic.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

In Eastern Europe, the epidemic has leveled off.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

He says the relatively large number of patients who are not being treated properly for tuberculosis is fueling the epidemic.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

UNAIDS estimates about have been infected with HIV since the epidemic began about About 25 million have died from HIV-related illnesses.

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

"So the combination of eating more calorie-dense food and having fewer opportunities for physical activity, that's what creates this obesity epidemic."

VOA: standard.2010.07.02

And it's been really the epicenter of the epidemic there, The research is funded by the South African government and USAID.

VOA: standard.2010.07.15

Health officials had been preparing for a flu epidemic for years, but viruses do not follow a plan.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

Total Control of the Epidemic was started in Denmark in 1977 by the organization, Humana People to People.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

"The AIDS epidemic is still an emergency. It hasn't gone away and it will not go away."

VOA: standard.2010.07.17

Many consider AIDS 2000 as the first major conference to put a human face on the epidemic.

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

Growing fears of a flu epidemic across the Arab world is prompting Arab health ministers to restrict participation in this year's annual Hajj.

VOA: standard.2009.07.23

So it's much more targeted and it doesn't address HIV as if it's a generalized epidemic.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

He notes that except for the death toll in Mexico, most of the swine flu cases reported since the current epidemic struck have been relatively mild.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

He says the tuberculosis epidemic is far from over and is being aggravated by multi-drug resistant TB and its even more dangerous form, extensively drug-resistant TB.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

And scientists have done similar research on the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

For years,the lack of reliable data on HIV/AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa led regional governments to believe they had somehow managed to escape the epidemic.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

Turning the Page for us refers to the HIV prevention research world really entering a new period in its activity, That new period comes 30 years into the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

VOA: standard.2010.07.15

"The problem with resistance means that we might be facing a situation where our currently, mostly susceptible epidemic is replaced in a decade or two by mostly multi-drug resistant disease,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

South African President Jacob Zuma announced what he called a new era in the fight against HIV/AIDS in his country, which is seen by many as the epicenter of the epidemic.

VOA: standard.2009.12.02