When Benta Odeny was diagnosed with HIV, she started to protect her husband Daniel from the virus by taking antiretroviral medications. The same drugs also helped her give birth to an HIV-negative daughter, Angelia. Gregory Warner/NPR hide caption
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Wednesday
Sun, shopping and chikungunya? A nasty virus has sickened 10 people on the island of St. Martin in the past few months. Balalaika/iStockphoto hide caption
Tuesday
A mother waits with her child at an HIV clinic in Nyagasambu, Rwanda, in February 2008. The clinic was built with a grant from the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief initiative. Shashank Bengali/MCT /Landov hide caption
Monday
A simulated patient at the University of Malaya makes use of different materials to mimic the look and feel of human tissue. Courtesy of Vicknes Waran hide caption
Sunday
A polio worker vaccinates a child in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan, in October. Arshad Arbab/EPA/Landov hide caption
Friday
The chikunguyna virus was discovered in 1955 by two scientists in Tanzania. EMDataBank using UCSF Chimera hide caption
Thursday
Developing a vaccine for meningitis B was tricky. Even the existing vaccine doesn't protect against all B strains. Josef Muellek/iStockphoto.com hide caption
Wednesday
Children get tested for malaria at a clinic near the Myanmar border in Sai Yoke, Thailand. Drug-resistant strains of the parasite have appeared in the region over the past few years. Surkree Sukplang/Reuters /Landov hide caption
Tuesday
The Ivy League school has begun vaccinating nearly 6,000 students to try to stop an outbreak of type B meningitis in an unusual federal government-endorsed administration of a drug not generally approved for use in the U.S. Mel Evans/AP hide caption
Friday
A building under construction is covered with haze in Shanghai on Friday. The city's pollution index is at its highest ever, officials say. Eugene Hoshiko/AP hide caption
The HIV virus has proven once again that it can evade detection in the body. BSIP/UIG via Getty Images hide caption
Monday
Syrian boys line up to get the polio vaccine at a refugee camp in Sidon, Lebanon, on Nov. 7. The Lebanese government plans to vaccinate all kids under age 5 for the virus, including Syrian refugees. Mohammad Zaatari/AP hide caption
As Polio Spreads In Syria, Politics Thwarts Vaccination Efforts
President Obama walks into an auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building Monday for a speech about World AIDS Day. Carolyn Kaster/AP hide caption
Tuesday
Monday
Christina Asima says she had no choice but to marry last year at age 12 to help care for younger siblings after her mother abandoned the family. But she says her husband was abusive, so she left him, and now must look after her 8-month-old son, Praise, alone. Jennifer Ludden/NPR hide caption