HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — The advice of doctors to Zimbabweans is, don't get sick. If you do, don't count on hospitals — they're short of drugs and functioning equipment.

(Columbus Dispatch) A growing number of American children are taking drugs for a wide range of chronic conditions related to childhood obesity, according to prescription data from three organizations.

(IHT) In two years, cervical cancer has gone from obscure killer confined mostly to poor nations to the West's disease of the moment.

(Daily Times) Rising food prices around the world are likely to drive poor women to trade sex for basic goods like fish and cooking oil, raising the risk of new AIDS infections, UN officials said on Monday.

MEXICO CITY (PlusNews) - Most sex and HIV education programmes for young people focus on the risks of unsafe sex, leaving them ill-equipped to deal with their sexuality and unable to lead sexually fulfilling lives, experts have said.

(Medical News Today) For next year, President Bush has proposed to cut the CDC HIV Prevention budget by $1 million. This is on top of this year's budget cut of $3.5 million. Neither the U.S. House of Representatives nor the U.S. Senate has proposed any increased funding for HIV Prevention. This is completely unacceptable.

CUZCO (Reuters Life!) Pregnant with her seventh child, Benigna Condori hiked for hours through Peru's Andes mountains to a health clinic that mixes modern medicine with indigenous practices like giving birth standing up.