JUDY WOODRUFF:Now to some dramatic findings from arecent AIDS studyand what they suggest about using drugs for the prevention of the disease. Ray Suarez has the story. RAY SUAREZ:The power of anti-AIDS drugs in treating patients has been well-documen
JIM LEHRER:Ray Suarez has more on the growing humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa. RAY SUAREZ:And for that we turn toJeremy Konyndyk, policy director for Mercy Corps, which has approximately 50 to 100 people doing relief and development work in
RAY SUAREZ:For more on all of this, we are joined by Joel Charny, vice president for humanitarian policy and practice at InterAction, an alliance of U.S.-based relief and development organizations. And, Joel, let's stipulate from the get-go that anyb
JEFFREY BROWN: Next tonight, Afghanistan, where both the U.S. and Afghan governments are exploring new negotiations with the Taliban. Margaret Warner sat down with three Afghan women who have a significant amount at stake in the outcome. WOMAN: We do
JEFFREY BROWN: And finally tonight: A new PBS documentary shines a light on the oppression of women and girls worldwide. Half the Sky airs in two parts over two nights, starting this evening. It's based on a book of the same name by New York Times co
JEFFREY BROWN: And finally tonight, a new book explores the history and spread of AIDS in Africa. Ray Suarez has our conversation. RAY SUAREZ: Since AIDS was first identified in the West 30 years ago, its toll across the world has been vicious. It's
GWEN IFILL:We turn now to a new report which ranks the countries where mothers and their children are at the most and the least risk. The international nonprofit Save the Children finds Norway the healthiest for the third year in a row, the worst, th
JEFFREY BROWN:Next, two takes on AIDS today here and around the world. We begin with a global progress report more than three decades after the first cases were reported. Gwen Ifill has that. GWEN IFILL:When researchers, political leaders and advocat
JEFFREY BROWN:Even as smoking declines in the U.S. and other countries, a new study published in the British medical journal The Lancet reveals that the use of tobacco in developing countries is booming. The report titled The Global Adult Tobacco Sur
HARI SREENIVASAN:Heavily armed police moved deeper into the snow-covered mountains east of Los Angeles today, hunting an ex-police officer wanted for three murders. Christopher Dorner's burning truck was found yesterday near the Big Bear Lake Resort,
MARGARET WARNER:Countries around the globe will mark World AIDS Day this weekend. The toll of the disease is still enormous. More than 30 million have died since the epidemic broke out. And AIDS accounted for 1.7 million deaths last year. But there i
GWEN IFILL:Forty years after it became legal, the debate over abortion has not gone away. According to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released today, 70 percent of Americans do not want to see Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision which le
GWEN IFILL:And we close about with new findings about declining life spans for some women. Those come from a pair of new studies. The first reported that, in 43 percent of the nation's counties, many of them in the South and the West, womenmore women
JEFFREY BROWN:Next, we turn to a problem plaguing one in four children in the United States today: hunger. A film opening nationwide today profiles some of the hardest-hit. Ray Suarez has our conversation. RAY SUAREZ:It's a bitter paradox. The United
HARI SREENIVASAN: The White House, and House Republicans, are celebrating tonight. Today, they pushed through a bill to remake the health care system, something they failed to do back in March. The vote was 217 to 213. Lisa Desjardins begins our cove
JUDY WOODRUFF: As Vice President Biden said earlier, innovations in genetics could be crucial to finding cures for diseases like cancer. One of the most significant developments in this field is the newly discovered ability to modify the very genes i
JUDY WOODRUFF: Next, a long looked-for breakthrough in the battle against the deadly Ebola virus. One experimental vaccine has been shown to be 100 percent effective on humans. Hari Sreenivasan has the story. HARI SREENIVASAN: The results of a two-ye
Now: A new study raises even stronger concerns about the risks of brain injury from the country's most popular professional sport. It's the focus of our weekly segment the Leading Edge. And Hari Sreenivasan has the story from our New York studios. We
Now let's turn to the opioid crisis in this country and the federal government's response. Since he was elected, President Trump called on a White House panel to recommend what more need to be done. The commission, chaired by New Jersey Governor Chri
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