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英语课

By Tendai Maphosa
Harare
25 October 2006
 




Silver Packry, right, feeds one of her children while her mother, left, looks on in Harare, October 17, 2006
Silver Packry, right, feeds one of her children while her mother, left, looks on in Harare, October 17, 2006
 
 


 
 
 



Child mortality is on the increase in Zimbabwe, according to the country's health minister.


Health Minister David Parirenyatwa is quoted in the state-controlled daily newspaper, The Herald 1 as saying one in every 15 Zimbabwean children will die before his first birthday. Quoting the Zimbabwe Demographic Health Survey, Parirenyatwa added that one in 10 children would die before turning five.


The survey shows a rise from 59 to 102 deaths per 1,000 live births between 1985 and 1999. It also shows that more children die in rural than urban areas.


Maternal 2 mortality more than doubled from 283 per 100,000 live births in 1994 to 695 between 1995 and 1999.


Parirenyatwa says one of the reasons for the increases was the high cost of health care, which is beyond the reach of the majority of Zimbabweans. He says, although public health institutions should not charge anything for treating children under five or pregnant mothers who cannot pay, some insist on payment.


Zimbabwe's health care system, once among the best in Africa, is reeling under the HIV and AIDS pandemic,compounded by a worsening economic crisis, which has caused an exodus 3 of trained personnel to other countries and a severe shortage of drugs.



vt.预示...的来临,预告,宣布,欢迎
  • In England, the cuckoo is the herald of spring.在英国杜鹃鸟是报春的使者。
  • Dawn is the herald of day.曙光是白昼的先驱。
adj.母亲的,母亲般的,母系的,母方的
  • He is my maternal uncle.他是我舅舅。
  • The sight of the hopeless little boy aroused her maternal instincts.那个绝望的小男孩的模样唤起了她的母性。
v.大批离去,成群外出
  • The medical system is facing collapse because of an exodus of doctors.由于医生大批离去,医疗系统面临崩溃。
  • Man's great challenge at this moment is to prevent his exodus from this planet.人在当前所遇到的最大挑战,就是要防止人从这个星球上消失。
学英语单词
Abdullahpur
acheilus
Alkalispirillum
amorphous portion
appraisal clause
argentocracy
articulation (or joint)
association by causation
avian physiology
basic indexing and retrieval system
bed of honour
beire
bothriurids
breakeven level
buggerers
centimetric radar
chain operation
channel set
chivaler
Chuadanga District
Coober Pedy
copter mount
corrugated-metal
damping system
decree nisi of divorce
development strategy
device-dependent I/O
dictatorship of bourgeoisie
distribution of random variable
doughts
drogoul
dry-film resist
false value
feeding principles
gay libs
gesneria family
GFSK
Gleithobel
glycerids
independently of
ink palette
isulating jacket
juvenile white cell
knipl
latest time
leap over the wall
locus of evaluation
lovelessness
lymphatic system diagnostics
measures of peakness
mediumpressure pneumatic conveyer
meted
monitor working area
multi-deck sinking platform
multichaperone
multicurrencies
nannoes
national laws
non disconnecting fuse
oil purifying system
panning technique
Petri dishes
photosensitive emulsion
plural boards
polyarylsulfone (pasf)
prescription
proficiency testing
prosperately
Purley shales
rabbitite
retarding mechanism
rhubarb plant
rough-cast plastering
Sampit, Tk.
search tree
seaworthy certificate
sediment transportation mechanics
serenium
set of independent vertices
sheriffe
shipping intelligence
sling hoop
socket cement
sphenochasm
spliceostatins
spread-bat
Stropharia ambigua
Teasmades
tetranal
tetrapterous
the roma
to tangle with
touch sense
turning tool
Tymtey
unmeritedness
vehicle pitch angle
velocity control of logging
venerist
virgin drop black
wisconsin card sorting test (wcst)
women's troubles