Liberia: IRIN News examines HIV/AIDS in post-war Liberia

IRIN News examined the increasing prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Liberia, which is emerging from 14 years of civil war. "HIV/AIDS is now a serious problem in Liberia," President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf said recently, adding that HIV prevalence is 12% in the general population and higher among women and children. According to UNAIDS, 5.9% of Liberians were HIV-positive at the end of 2003, just after the end of the war.