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HEALTH REPORT - UN Says AIDS Crisis 1 Is Getting Worse
By Cynthia Kirk


Broadcast: Wednesday, July 14, 2004


This is Phoebe Zimmerman with the VOA Special English Health Report.


 
The Fifteenth International Conference on AIDS.
The fifteenth International AIDS Conference ends Friday in Bangkok, Thailand. There has not been much good news. In fact, the United Nations AIDS program reported last week that the crisis is getting worse.


The report said more people than ever, almost five million, became infected last year with H.I.V. Thirty-eight million are now infected with the virus that causes AIDS. Almost half are women. And half are between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four.


Last year almost three million people with AIDS died. The U.N. says more than twenty million have died since the disease 2 was first recognized in nineteen-eighty-one.


The report says H.I.V. is spreading fastest in eastern Europe and Asia. About seven million people in Asia are living with H.I.V. The disease largely 3 began to spread there among sex workers, homosexual men and people who inject drugs. But experts say it is now moving into the general population.


China, Indonesia and Vietnam were noted 4 for the sharpest increases. India has the highest number of infections of any country except South Africa. India has more than five million people with H.I.V.


Seventy percent of H.I.V. infected people in the world live in southern Africa. Yet that area has only ten percent of the world's population. An estimated 5 twenty-five million people are infected in countries south of the Sahara. Three out of four are women. Among sixteen year olds in southern Africa today, sixty percent might not reach their sixtieth birthday. After Africa, the U.N. report says the Caribbean is the area hardest hit.


U.N. officials says infections are also on the rise in the United States and western Europe. Half of the new infections in the United States are among African-Americans.


The report blames the increase in western countries largely on the use of AIDS drugs which suppress 6 the virus. Officials say these medicines have made some people less concerned about being infected.


Many countries have reduced their rates of H.I.V. infection. Among them are Brazil, Uganda and Thailand. Also, drug prices have dropped. And there is more money to fight AIDS. But the U.N. AIDS report says developing countries are getting less than half the money they need. It says only one person in five in developing countries is able to get treatment.


This VOA Special English Health Report was written by Cynthia Kirk. This is Phoebe Zimmerman.



n.危机,危急关头,决定性时刻,关键阶段
  • He had proved that he could be relied on in a crisis.他已表明,在紧要关头他是可以信赖的。
  • The topic today centers about the crisis in the Middle East.今天课题的中心是中东危机。
n.疾病,弊端
  • The doctors are trying to stamp out the disease.医生正在尽力消灭这种疾病。
  • He fought against the disease for a long time.他同疾病做了长时间的斗争。
adv.大部分,主要地
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  • Their conclusions were largely founded on guesswork.他们的结论大部份基于猜测。
adj.著名的,知名的
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  • Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。
adj.根据估计的
  • She estimated the breadth of the lake to be 500 metres. 她估计湖面大约有500米宽。
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vt.压制,镇压,查禁,抑制,阻止
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6-Hydroxytropinone
64-bit memory chips
a queen bee
ackerson
adrenal hypoplasia
Aeschynanthus radicans
aphthaus stomatitis
avoidable cause
backup and recovery
baregine
bitemary
Brewster magnifier
Briggsia dongxingensis
bundle of fun
cementing unit
chlorisondamine
chrome chromchre
compone
computation and adjustment of traverse
computer courseware
crowtrees
CZCS
dental floss holder
diamino dicarboxylic acid
diapiric fold
digital tracking system
dosze-peres
double solvent extraction
Drumfree
ego-consciousness
esselens
ethician
family lasiocampidaes
fuel-flow totalizer
genus Percina
hana odori (japan)
heat(ing) effect
Herfelingen
Huasco, Salar del
hyperbolic region
insurer's interest
kidney malpighian corpuscle
lateral supraclavicular nerves
law of association
lifter drawing bar
low-voltage distribution equipment
lower cannons
manipulating
meanies
meathook
Mereprine
Merkels tactile disk
minimum stress-intensity factor
N-acetylhexosaminidase
negative justfication
neutralizing hydrolysis
noncondensable
octavalvifer
Ophioglossum
optical glass fiber
overdocuments
parmarion martensi
passing loop
pathogen-related(PR)protein
pendulous fibroma
perforation of Meckel's diverticulum
phase matched for parametric processes
planning procedure
positive convergence
positive displacement screw type compressor
principal conjunctive normal form
pupilmaster
range tone
ratherest
reflection loss
rigidity factor
scotch carpet
scotias
sculling propulsion
seismic energy
self-stip
shuken
sine-curve shaped structure
SPVD
structural hazard
studio art
sulfinol process
sulfocarbimide
telemeter processor
transfer RNA gene
trencher
Trisetacus
type of documentation
una voce
unboasting
under detention
under its own steam
unpumpable
Ust'-Kulomskiy Rayon
voice frequency carrier telegraph
wizard sleeve
Zuitzer