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DEVELOPMENT REPORT – December 9, 2002: Tuberculosis 1 Control Program in India


By Jill Moss 2



This is the VOA Special English Development Report.


There are more people with tuberculosis in India than in any other country in the world. Each year, tuberculosis
infects about two-million people in India and kills nearly five-hundred-thousand people. However, this is starting
to change. Researchers recently studied a tuberculosis control program in India. The study says the program has
saved about two-hundred-thousand lives and more than four-hundred-million dollars.


The New England Journal of Medicine published a study about the tuberculosis control program in October. The
Indian government started the program in nineteen-ninety-three. Since that time, about three-and-one-half million
patients have been examined for tuberculosis. Almost eight-hundred-thousand patients have received medical
treatment.


Also, more than forty percent of India’s population can now get tuberculosis services. And more than two-
hundred-thousand health workers have been trained to examine and treat people with the disease. This makes
India’s tuberculosis control program one of the world’s largest public health programs.


Thomas Frieden (FREED-en) of the United States was one of the people who wrote the study. He says that
India’s tuberculosis control program has strengthened the country’s general health care system. For example,
he says the quality of work done in laboratories has improved.


However, Doctor Frieden says the program includes only half of India. He says the goal is to continue the
program while extending it to the rest of the country. Doctor Frieden believes this will be difficult because of
health threats from the virus that causes AIDS and because some forms of tuberculosis are resistant 3 to drugs.


Currently, the World Health Organization estimates that about one-third of the world’s population are infected
with the bacteria that cause tuberculosis. Tuberculosis becomes active in only about ten percent of all cases.
However, it can remain in a victim’s lungs for years or even a lifetime.


Infected people spread tuberculosis by releasing particles from their mouths when they cough, sneeze, spit or
talk. Signs of the disease include high body temperature and coughing.


A person with active T-B must take medicine each day for six to nine months to halt progression of the disease.


This VOA Special English Development Report was written by Jill Moss.


Adapted from a report by VOA's David McAlary



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n.结核病,肺结核
  • People used to go to special health spring to recover from tuberculosis.人们常去温泉疗养胜地治疗肺结核。
  • Tuberculosis is a curable disease.肺结核是一种可治愈的病。
n.苔,藓,地衣
  • Moss grows on a rock.苔藓生在石头上。
  • He was found asleep on a pillow of leaves and moss.有人看见他枕着树叶和苔藓睡着了。
adj.(to)抵抗的,有抵抗力的
  • Many pests are resistant to the insecticide.许多害虫对这种杀虫剂有抵抗力。
  • They imposed their government by force on the resistant population.他们以武力把自己的统治强加在持反抗态度的人民头上。
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a streaker
a.m.
adenanthrea microsperma l.
AGA,A.G.A.
air cleaner
annual ring density
Bayerbach bei Ergoldsbach
Bence-Jones protein
blacklers
cagewashes
cartographic design
cerebral irritation
chief executives
ciprofibrate
clutter rejection
coherent brittle stage
commutator-controlled weld
cryogenic technology
digital to image conversion
discipleships
double faced hammer
dress
drewe
Dunnet
eeps
efficiency factor
enthalpy of swelling
equatorial system
exterior varnish
exult over
farigue
Fat Analysis Committee colour
flat billet
get his
Gojra
graynet
Guaranteed Death Benefit
half-binding
hexaquarks
high-sulphur fuel
improvement by lessee
injector feed
interaction volume
intoxilyzer
IP fragmentation IP
key variable
korahl
leakage spectrum
lenslets
linolenate
logolepsy
long - term care
loop termination
lql
lutnick
malgwyn
material for test
Medveditskiy
Metroval
mintels
miscellaneous asbestos product
Neolitsea pinninervis
newbattles
non-dividend payee
operational technical manual
penetration of grease
pole setting
pretell
primary mother-tree selection
production strategies
psauoscopy
Qarshi
random noise level
reference oscillator muting
reservoir sensitivity evaluation
reversible code
roller-ball
runners
salty milk
scarifie
see sth with half an eye
sentenceable
shilt
Shimabara-hantō
simple radical
special transfer paper
steinhausers
sulphur cement mortar anchor
superefficiency
temperature classification
thelephoid
theory of growth
thermal processes
thrash over
tooth abscess
USB stick
velascas
vermilions
voltaic irritability
wad hamid
with expedition
zygoplast