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This story is part of a series, Cancer's New Battleground: the Developing World. Above: Indian women participate in a women's march in Mumbai on Monday. Photo by Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images. Cervical cancer used to kill more women in the...

This story is part of a series, Cancer's New Battleground, the Developing World. Above, Haitians wait for the doors to open in 2006 at a free clinic in Cange. Photo by Thony Belizaire/AFP/Getty Images. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western...

Uganda Cancer Institute. Photo by Jacqueline Koch. This story is the first in a five-part series produced by PRI in collaboration with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. The week of Dec. 10, the PBS NewsHour will post one story from the series...

Watch Video | Listen to the AudioFRED DE SAM LAZARO: The 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti may still loom large in Americans' memory, but, in Haiti itself, that was at least three disasters ago, before Hurricanes Tomas last year, Isaac in August,...

Watch Video | Listen to the AudioMARGARET 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...

An Indian child walks past a mural painted on the side of a train Kolkata in West Bengal, India. India has the world's third largest population living with HIV/AIDS. Photo by Dibyangshu Sarkar/ AFP/ Getty Images. An AIDS-free generation? Sounds...

Courtesy of University of Rochester. World AIDS Day is Dec. 1, a day devoted to the fight against HIV and for showing support for those living with the virus. It also is a day that has been used to raise awareness for prevention and better knowledge...