Not only has the epidemic struck a highly mobile population, which has allowed it to spread to urban areas such as Monrovia, the capital of Liberia with a population of about 1 million, but after years of debilitating civil war and insurgency the local population has shown scepticism towards the support offered by health workers and national authorities.
It has given birth to some of Africa's greatest writers and musicians, though years of debilitating military rule have stripped writing and music of their vibrancy.
In her later years, before she suffered a series of debilitating strokes that left her partially paralysed, she served as a loved mentor to many of Pakistan's prominent women.
Earlier this year, she said, a 4-year-old boy stepped on one of the needles and had to undergo a month of debilitating treatment to stave off H.I.V. infection.
Breaking into song again 23 years later because she's died of a stroke following years of debilitating illness and seclusion strikes me as futile and a bit sad – not unlike dancing into the British Museum to shake your fist at a mummy.
S.L. has a series of debilitating strokes, but lives on until Wiley is twelve.
Cue that man with the screwdriver and a gruelling interlude on the riverside as a hammer was called for, the seat itself was waved about, members of the British team engaged in the kind of concerted head-scratching that usually attends a complex plumbing accident and four years of debilitating preparation hung by a screw thread.
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He had endured nearly three years of debilitating symptoms, as well as a shifting regimen of enemas, suppositories, shots, supplements, and, for several months, intravenous infusions of Remicade, a potent immunosuppressant, at a cost of more than twelve thousand dollars each. "I would tell my wife in the morning, 'I'm getting out my arsenal,' " Gravel told me.
