Obama to sign Ryan White extension, meet with military advisers on Afghanistan and Pakistan

HIV, Afghanistan, and Pakistan on Obama’s agenda

AP interview: Russian drug control chief urges more aggressive US action on Afghan drugs

Russia: US fight against Afghan drugs insufficient

MOSCOW — Russia’s drug czar says U.S. and NATO anti-narcotics actions in Afghanistan are woefully insufficient and is calling for joint U.S.-Russian action against the Afghan heroin flooding into the former Soviet Union.

President tours NIH lab, meets with national security team on Afghanistan

Stimulus, Afghanistan policy on Obama’s agenda

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama travels to suburban Maryland on Wednesday to make an announcement about stimulus funding to support research into cures for cancer and other diseases.

Fracture healed by US forces, Afghan toddler injured in rooftop fall makes journey home

Fracture healed by US forces, Afghan boy goes home

DAY KUNDI PROVINCE, Afghanistan — The Afghan father left the mountains on foot, carrying his 2-year-old son, but the health clinic could not treat the skull fracture that blinded the toddler and immobilized his left side. By chance the next day, two American medics stopped by the clinic in Day Kundi Province to check on another patient.

State Department investigating death of US employee hired to help train Afghan national police

Drugs suspected in death of Afghanistan contractor

WASHINGTON — A U.S. contractor in Afghanistan helping train the national police was found dead last week of a possible drug overdose, just months after his company was reprimanded by the State Department for another worker’s drug-related death.