时间:2019-02-01 作者:英语课 分类:2006年VOA标准英语(十月)


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By Jordan Davis
Dakar
17 October 2006 
  




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Nomad woman stand in a food line at a village near the small town of Dakoro, Niger
 
 


 
 
 



As the international community marks World Poverty Day Tuesday, health experts say one of the keys to reducing poverty is improving maternal 2 health care for women. The problem is particularly serious in Africa where an estimated 700 women die each day of complications from pregnancy 3 or childbirth.


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The Africa director of the United Nations Population Fund, Fama Ba, says while money has been spent on new hospitals and clinics, many developing countries have a hard time keeping staff from leaving for jobs in wealthier countries.


"They are facing the outflow of health personnel going to the North," she said. "You can go to some health facilities and you don't find anybody to attend to those people. And this has a consequent impact on the increasing levels of maternal mortality in many areas."


Ba says there have been success stories in reducing the numbers of women dying in childbirth in Africa. Senegal, she says, reduced its maternal mortality rate by 20 percent over the last decade by working with community organizations and building new health centers.


Ba says spending money on women's health and family planning is sound economic policy.


"Half of the population is constituted by women. And it is confirmed by many studies that investing in reproductive health and family planning is absolutely critical to empowering women and to have them contribute their full potential to the development of their countries," said Ba.


The U.N.'s Millennium 4 Development goals call for more investment in sexual and reproductive health to reduce poverty in half by 20-15.


The world body estimates two in three Africans have no access to essential services, such as family planning, maternal health care, and HIV prevention and treatment.





 




n.游牧部落的人,流浪者,游牧民
  • He was indeed a nomad of no nationality.他的确是个无国籍的游民。
  • The nomad life is rough and hazardous.游牧生活艰苦又危险。
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。
n.怀孕,怀孕期
  • Early pregnancy is often accompanied by nausea.怀孕早期常有恶心的现象。
  • Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of miscarriage.怀孕期吸烟会增加流产的危险。
n.一千年,千禧年;太平盛世
  • The whole world was counting down to the new millennium.全世界都在倒计时迎接新千年的到来。
  • We waited as the clock ticked away the last few seconds of the old millennium.我们静候着时钟滴答走过千年的最后几秒钟。
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academic editing
advertising expert
alfoil
alomars
antigastrin
apparent superluminal velocity
aspidium oleoresin
balance disc
bang up job
bartholian cyst
benign lipoblastoma
bezique
Bis-2-Ethyl-Hexyl-Phthalate
blanket washing machine
bunker fuel
ceilometry
centering fixture
combination variance
convergence spasm
corium erinacei
cotectic
cross removal
currency flows
Cyberdog
Dicrocoeliidae
differential-piston
direct-cut operation
dolichaster
electroanalgesia
ferricinum ion
finite observation time
flec
fluctuations in exchange
frequency booster
frequency coding
genus Argyrotaenia
geographical general name
glass faceplate
grading panel
grow up like mushrooms
herbaceous cover
hexyl group
high-temperature plasma physics
highly charged particle
horse gentians
household and population effect on aggregate consumption
hub in network
hypocrea lenta
indicator diagram, indicator card
initializing declaration
irritating gas
Kylestrome
lightwaters
low-head screen
lying around
mercury-contact switch
Meriones unguiculatus
metal-oxide-semiconductor array
metapyamine
monk's shoe
nominal rate.
non-purging type bulimia nervosa
non-volitional
nulla bona
panfrying
Paradombeya
Potier's electromotive force
probate division
proper journal
Ramus lateralis
receptor-effector system
requested dosage form
self renewal
shaving
shienarans
simple aerial cableway
sincock
sludge boat
soil sample
spastic spinal paralyses
Spurway syndrome
suite by chance
Sumarokovo
syntax error message
testicular sarcoma
the half poussette
thrust upon
transition of shots
tuclase
tutorship
two-section
unfothered
unlevel luffing
uranographia
velocity antiresonance
village forest
waiter's assistant
Wallis Warfield Windsor
well connected
without saying a word
zildes
zinc gahnite