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Rwanda
In July 2004, crowds lined the streets as the motorcade of U.S. First Lady Laura Bush and her daughter Jenna traveled through Kigali. They visited Rwanda, South Africa, and Tanzania, including an evangelical church in Kigali that shelters children orphaned by the 1994 genocide and those afflicted with 足AIDS.
these factors are at work in Rwanda and probably explain the high population growth rate. Moreover, the Roman Catholic Church has strongly opposed population control efforts in 足Rwanda. In Rwanda, most of the leading causes of death are avoid-足 able. They include such communicable diseases as malaria, HIV/AIDS, diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever. In the United States, on the other hand, leading causes of death are