时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2012年(十二月)


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Malaria 1 Programs at Risk From Funding Cuts



Ami Diabate, has brought her three children to a rural clinic to get the latest anti-malarial 2 drugs.


The aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières - or Doctors Without Borders - is rolling out the pilot program across Mali. Results are encouraging - a 65-percent drop in infections a week after distribution.


Deadly disease


Diabate said she has noticed an immediate 3 difference.


"My children used to have fevers regularly, she said, but since they started taking this medicine, they haven't run a temperature."


Malaria kills an estimated 660,000 people every year. Over the past decade, advances in prevention and treatment have cut the death rate by 30 percent.


The World Health Organization warns, however, that funding increases over the past two years have slowed significantly - putting such progress at risk.


Simon Wright is head of child survival at the aid agency, Save the Children.


“The financial crisis means that a lot of governments - not all by any means - but a lot of governments are tailing off in their aid budgets. And so where we were seeing growth we’re not seeing growth any more. But also there’s a factor of maybe donors 4 changing their interests,” said Wright.


Short on supplies


In 2011, international donors made $2.3 billion available to fight malaria - less than half the $5.1 billion that the WHO says is needed annually 5.


The money goes toward some simple tools, said Professor Sir Brian Greenwood of the London School of Hygiene 6 and Tropical Medicine.


“One of those is the humble 7 bed-net, which people have been using for hundreds of years. But the relatively 8 new advance has been in treating the nets with insecticide. Now, the insecticide is actually incorporated into the material,” he said.


The number of insecticide-impregnated nets delivered to sub-Saharan Africa fell from 145 million in 2010 to 66 million in 2012. Indoor spraying programs also have leveled off.


Increased resistance


Greenwood said the greatest concern is the growing resistance of the malarial parasite 9 to the latest medicines known as artemisinins.


“We do have now quite clear evidence that there is resistance to the artemisinins, particularly in Cambodia, but probably in the neighboring countries. Fortunately not yet in Africa, but it would be a disaster if those parasites 10 got loose in Africa, and our main treatment was failing again, like it did with chloroquin,” he said.


Until an effective malaria vaccine 11 is developed and made available globally, researchers say it is vital that donors continue to fund prevention and treatment programs that have made such progress until now. 




1 malaria
n.疟疾
  • He had frequent attacks of malaria.他常患疟疾。
  • Malaria is a kind of serious malady.疟疾是一种严重的疾病。
2 malarial
患疟疾的,毒气的
  • Malarial poison had sallowed his skin. 疟疾病毒使他皮肤成灰黄色。
  • Standing water like this gives malarial mosquitoes the perfect place to breed. 像这样的死水给了传染疟疾的蚊子绝佳的繁殖地点。
3 immediate
adj.立即的;直接的,最接近的;紧靠的
  • His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
  • We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。
4 donors
n.捐赠者( donor的名词复数 );献血者;捐血者;器官捐献者
  • Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去,请给我们发电子邮件。
  • About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 annually
adv.一年一次,每年
  • Many migratory birds visit this lake annually.许多候鸟每年到这个湖上作短期逗留。
  • They celebrate their wedding anniversary annually.他们每年庆祝一番结婚纪念日。
6 hygiene
n.健康法,卫生学 (a.hygienic)
  • Their course of study includes elementary hygiene and medical theory.他们的课程包括基础卫生学和医疗知识。
  • He's going to give us a lecture on public hygiene.他要给我们作关于公共卫生方面的报告。
7 humble
adj.谦卑的,恭顺的;地位低下的;v.降低,贬低
  • In my humble opinion,he will win the election.依我拙见,他将在选举中获胜。
  • Defeat and failure make people humble.挫折与失败会使人谦卑。
8 relatively
adv.比较...地,相对地
  • The rabbit is a relatively recent introduction in Australia.兔子是相对较新引入澳大利亚的物种。
  • The operation was relatively painless.手术相对来说不痛。
9 parasite
n.寄生虫;寄生菌;食客
  • The lazy man was a parasite on his family.那懒汉是家里的寄生虫。
  • I don't want to be a parasite.I must earn my own way in life.我不想做寄生虫,我要自己养活自己。
10 parasites
寄生物( parasite的名词复数 ); 靠他人为生的人; 诸虫
  • These symptoms may be referable to virus infection rather than parasites. 这些症状也许是由病毒感染引起的,而与寄生虫无关。
  • Kangaroos harbor a vast range of parasites. 袋鼠身上有各种各样的寄生虫。
11 vaccine
n.牛痘苗,疫苗;adj.牛痘的,疫苗的
  • The polio vaccine has saved millions of lives.脊髓灰质炎疫苗挽救了数以百万计的生命。
  • She takes a vaccine against influenza every fall.她每年秋季接种流感疫苗。
学英语单词
1-naphthyldiphenylcarbinol
5-methoxytryptophol
advance in price
alginate rayon
axerophthol
backup circuit breaker
banner pk.
Bilup
biphenoxide
breadfruit
Burmannia championii
carparks
choke-flow condition
clock-face timetable
clusterised
coalitionism
cryptograined texture
decline of sale
degelatinized bone dust
denwoods
dext
diathermy of choroid
ectocentral
elephantipes
erewhons
ethylic
false diverticulum of bladder
ferrinatrite
fruit dehydrator
gage tap
gases exchange between ocean
geothermobarometers
h.a.
hektograph
helsinkis
herkol
hinesville
Impatiens noli-tangere
in shadow
inactivation center
indeterminancy
interest method of account current
intermediate merchant
inthrallments
isokinetically
judgment debt
kewda
kinetochore microtubule
Kings R.
lather booster
lay in the oars
linear interpolation
logical channel
minus tapping
mullas
multipartisms
muon detector
nonfines concrete
Oligoporus leucospongia
Oppdal
outdevice
parallelism of disease
parenetic
peeces
perioval precipitation rate
peripheal angle
peter
Pharm.D.
Pieter Brueghel the Elder
pitz
positive balance
proton inertia
pull ... weight
Raabs an der Thaya
ramiprilat
rehash strategy
retardation axis
ring-necked pheasant
sarcinae
screaming-yellow
set the watch
short distance transport
situation as a whole
Skepasto
standard hour system
Steeleville
stencil-like
subfeature
talking about
target folder
thymonucleodepolymerase
thyroma
tickle sb's vanity
to trash
tray boot
trial-and-error search
twll
tyre-trueing machine
unloading bay
veneer edge bander
vernoguinoside
zeuxes