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This week in the final part of our series 'Life for My Child', Célia and Helena receive the results of HIV tests on their newborn babies. We'll also take a look at how the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is not an isolated disaster, and see how drained boglands are being re-wetted in Belarus.
In 1979 an oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico caused the largest accidental marine oil spill in history. The Ixtoc oil spill may have now been surpassed by the current Deepwater Horizon rig explosion, but there are many parallels between the two disasters.
The Ixtoc leak took months to stop, with the oil company unsuccessfully trying out the same methods being used by BP today: the top kill procedure, drilling a relief well, installing a well cap. The company involved in the Ixtoc disaster later fused with Transocean, the firm that leased the Deepwater Horizon rig to BP.
The international AIDS conference, AIDS 2010, is taking place in Vienna from July 18-23. 25,000 from all over the world want to bring the pressing issues connected to the disease into closer focus.
Our series about two HIV-infected women in Mozambique has shown how important it is for sufferers to have universal access to treatment and prevention measures. Célia and Helena are pregnant, and medication provides them with good chances of giving birth to healthy children.
In the last part of our documentary series both women learn the results of the first HIV tests carried out on their babies.
Gautam Kashyap is 48 years old and he lives in Pune, India. He runs a restaurant there, where he enjoys getting to know his customers.
When a bog is drained, greenhouse gases are released that have been stored in the earth for thousands of years. It is a big problem in Belarus, but now steps are been taken to re-naturalize the peatlands.
Bogs cover about 15 percent of the land in Belarus. But many have become degraded or drained through agricultural use and turf removal.
A German trust has now started to re-naturalize 15,000 hectares of peatland in northern and southern Belarus. This should limit the annual emissions of damaging greenhouse gases, and restore the habitats of threatened plant and animal species.
