Millions of Newborn Deaths Reported 数以百万计的新生儿死亡报道 Every Newborn Action Plan, an international initiative, is scheduled to be launched in June 2014. It's estimated there are 5.5-million newborn and still birth deaths each yea

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2014年(五月)

The United Nations World Food Program is appealing for $2.5 million for an emergency food program in Western Nepal, which has been inundated by heavy flooding this week. The WFP says the money will be used to feed about 170,000 people for one month.

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(九月)

By Jessica Berman Washington 02 February 2006 For the first time since the start of the AIDS epidemic, researchers are reporting a decline in the percentage of men and women infected with HIV in south

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(130) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(二月)

By Paul Sisco Washington, D.C. 21 March 2007 watch World Water Day report Coping with water scarcity is the theme of this year's World Water Day (March 22nd). World Water Day is an annual day of observance and action coordinated by the United Nation

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(116) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(三月)

The Nigerian health ministry has blamed poor sanitation and shortage of safe drinking water for the deadly outbreaks of cholera and gastroenteritis in parts of northern Nigeria. A senior official announced Friday that the crisis is now under control

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(十月)

Butcher Haj Mohammed chops pieces of meat at his Halal butcher shop and wraps each carefully for his customers in in Paris's Muslim quarter Famed American chef, author and television personality Julia Child once called cooking in France a national sp

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(八)月

U.N. aid agencies say they are being denied access to some camps for displaced people in northern Sri Lanka, hindering their ability to help Tamil civilians displaced by the recent fighting between government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels. Sri Lanka

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(93) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(五月)

International aid groups are trying to stop the the spread of cholera in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, where many earthquake survivors live in makeshift camps and filthy slums. Cholera strikes so fast it is sometimes called the lightening disease.

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(十一)月

Report: Urban African Kids Risk Exploitation A humanitarian group has warned that children living in African cities are at increasing risk of exploitation, abuse and disease. Save the Children says most of the continents children eventually will live

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(十二月)

Ancient Tooth Plaque Reveals Diet Long before the development of agriculture, our prehistoric ancestors had a good knowledge of plants not just for food, but for medicine. Researchers found evidence of this by studying some ancient teeth found in Cen

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2014年(七月)

大批索马里难民亟待返乡 A quarter century of civil war, exacerbated by the rise of the violent al Shabaab terror group and cyclical droughts of historic proportions has seen wave after wave of Somalis leaving their home country. Today, some

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(89) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2016年(九月)

Nigerians Still Fearful of Ebola, Vow to Stay Vigilant LAGOS Nigeria has not had a new confirmed case of Ebola for more than a month, after initially confirming 19 cases and reporting eight deaths starting in late July. Health officials have praised

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2014年(十月)

Asian Water Summit Focuses on Security, Disaster There was no sign of a water shortage here in northern Thailand as delegates gathered for the Asia-Pacific Water summit. But inside, there was talk about an impending crisis facing Asia. For the region

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2013年(五月)

奥巴马全家迎接教皇 As Pope Francis airplane approached, President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and their family were on hand at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington to welcome the head of the Roman Catholic Church to the Unit

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(46) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2016年(一月)

Traditional Healers Key to Stamping Out Ebola in Guinea 传统治疗师成几内亚铲除埃博拉病毒的关键 CONAKRY Guinea is the last country in West Africa where people are still getting sick from Ebola, and health authorities are rallying tr

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2015年(十月)

By Selah Hennessy Goma, DRC 19 December 2007 The international medical organization Doctors Without Borders says the humanitarian situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo is rapidly deteriorating. An armed conflict in the east of the country has

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(119) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2007年(十二月)

By Lisa Bryant Paris 08 February 2008 More than two years after violent suburban riots tore through France, the country's president Nicolas Sarkozy will unveil an ambitious plan Friday to turn around some of the poorest and grittiest towns that are h

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2008年(二月)

The U.N. Children's Fund says it is deeply concerned about the condition of thousands of children who have been displaced by conflict in northwestern Pakistan. UNICEF says children are in urgent need of health, education and other services. Displace

发表于:2019-02-12 / 阅读(135) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(七月)

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies warns diarrheal diseases, such as cholera, are on the rise and increasingly becoming a major cause of death throughout the world - especially in sub-Saharan Africa. The Red Cross sa

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA双语新闻 2009年3月

For thousands of years, whats called the Silk Road was a group of land and sea trade routes that connected the Far East with South Asia, Africa, the Middle East and southern Europe. Of course, when humans travel they carry their pathogens with them.

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(103) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年Scientific American(八)月