VOA标准英语2012--Home TB Treatment Is Helping Patients in Swaziland
时间：2018-12-16 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(十一月)
Home TB Treatment Is Helping 1 Patients in Swaziland
Mai Nambuli is still a bit hesitant, but soon she will be the personal nurse for her friend Nosipho Mpama.
Mpama has drug-resistant tuberculosis 2 and needs medication injected every day for six months. But she can’t make the several kilometer journey to the nearest clinic.
“It's difficult to reach the clinic because I'm still weak. I know her ((Manbuli)) as a good RHM, and she is confidential 3 with people's problems," Mpama said.
Nambuli was an RHM or Rural Health Motivator.
Now she is being trained to be a Community Treatment Supporter, or CTS, by the non-profit group Doctors Without Borders -- known in French as MSF for Medecins Sans Frontieres.
For her, it was only natural to help her friend. “When she asked me, I felt I had the skills to help her with the treatment until she gets better,” Nambuli said.
The MSF program was launched in 2008 with the idea that if the sick can’t travel to treatment, then treatment must be brought to them.
In mountainous and remote Swaziland, this promises to help save many lives.
But first, the Swazi government had to be convinced to allow MSF to run the project, says MSF Doctor Sidumo Gumbo.
“Initially it was a challenge because I mean, even myself, it wouldn't be easy to be treated with someone whom I know is not qualified 4 to do that. But in our case, in our setting, more people are being taught. I mean the benefits I've seen in the support groups, more people actually are getting better,” Sidumo said.
In Swaziland, MSF has trained about 35 CTS so far, and they have treated more than 200 patients. It’s a good start, but with more than 1,000 cases of drug-resistant TB diagnosed here each year, there's is a long way to go.
- The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
- By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
- 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。
- He refused to allow his secretary to handle confidential letters.他不让秘书处理机密文件。
- We have a confidential exchange of views.我们推心置腹地交换意见。