Learn how you can help efforts to improve maternal health in Africa.

One of the silent killers attacking the developing world is the lack of quality basic education for large numbers of the poorest children in the world's poorest countries -particularly girls. Yet unlike many of the world's most grievous ailments, this is a disease with a known cure.

WIDE ANGLE explores the role of Angola's military, the only functioning arm of the state, in its bold attempt to combat the AIDS pandemic.

(July 24, 2003) WIDE ANGLE explores the role of the Angolan military, the only functioning arm of the state, in its bold attempt to combat the AIDS pandemic. The challenges it faces offer an arresting portrait of a nation at a crucial moment in history.