A malnourished child in Yemen dies every 10 minutes, according to UNICEF Middle-East director who says the deaths are preventable. 每10分钟,就有一名营养不良的也门儿童死亡,这是联合国儿童基金会中东局局长提供的信息

发表于:2018-11-29 / 阅读(100) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2018年(十一月)

AS IT IS 2013-06-28 What's the Best Way to Give Food Aid? From VOA Learning English, this is As It Is. Welcome to the show. Im Caty Weaver. The United States is the leading supplier of food aidaround the world, at a cost of about 1.5 billion dollarsy

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The Ups and Downs of Living Longer From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Report in Special English. A new study says people are living longer, but many are living longer in poor health. Researchers found that life expectancy has increased by

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Today, some 815 million people suffer chronically from hunger. And although this is significantly fewer people than the numbers we saw a decade ago, hunger still kills more people than AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria combined. On May 28th, we observe

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U.S. Ambassador to Rwanda Erica J. Barks-Ruggles visited Ruvugizo Village in Kinazi sector in Huye this month to promote U.S. government-funded activities to combat malnutrition. During her visit on December 5th, the Ambassador observed Growth Monito

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Yemen on Brink of Disaster as Medical Shortages Soar LONDON Aid agencies warn Yemen is on the brink of humanitarian disaster with up to half a million children facing severe malnutrition, and hospitals running out of basic medicines. There are fears

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印度食品保障计划遭受质疑 India's government is moving forward with a landmark measure that will provide highly subsidized food grains to more than two-thirds of the country's 1.2 billion population. 印度政府正在推行里程碑式的食

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新研究揭示早产迹象 New information may someday help prevent preterm births, the world's number one killer of young children. 早产是全球幼儿的头号杀手。但是,一项新的研究可能帮助更多的婴儿足月出生。 More ba

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Most people try to keep insects out of their kitchens. But many of the creepy-crawlers are edible and quite nutritious. That is, if you can get past the idea of eating something usually considered a pest. In Laos, that is not a problem, since nearly

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Mobilizing to End Child Hunger Ending child hunger is the goal of a meeting here in Washington Monday. Government officials, nutrition and health experts and members of civil society from around the world are promoting the 1,000 Days Partnership. The

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Conditions Worsen for Darfurian Refugees, Others A medical aid group says conditions are getting worse for tens of thousands of people whove fled fighting in Sudans Darfur region. Refugees and others have been gathering for months in the Chadian town

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iPhone Becomes Low Cost Microscope The Apple iPhone can be used for lot of things making calls, playing games and sending pictures, video and text. Scientists say it also can be converted into a low-cost microscope to detect worm-related infections i

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肯尼亚牧民种植抗旱树 In northern Kenya, recurrent drought and desertification [process by which once fertile lands turn into deserts] are hitting livestock-dependent communities hard. Families in the Samburu region are hoping to root out ma

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Topic1 Malnutrition of Rural KidsIn China, kids in rural areas are more likely to suffer malnutrition than children in urban areas. The situation in impoverished regions is even worse, according to the country's health authorities. How serious is the

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DEVELOPMENT REPORT - Aid Operation Bringing Food for the Hungry in Niger By Jill Moss Broadcast: Monday, August 01, 2005 I'm Barbara Klein with the VOA Special English Development Report. Thousands of

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Steve Baragona Experts have told the U.S. Senate that AIDS and hunger in sub-Saharan Africa are making each other worse. The testimony before the Foreign Relations Committee comes as the World Health

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Fungicide for Plants May Hurt Honeybees除草剂可能对蜜蜂造成伤害 根据一项最新调查结果,一种广泛用于抵抗植物疾病的化学剂会对蜜蜂造成伤害,这项结果令人吃惊。美国之声记者梅根麦格拉思带来

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Photo: AP Margaret Chan, Director General of World Health Organization speaks at a press conference at WHO headquarters in Geneva, 29 Dec 2009 World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan says she is disappointed a deal on climate change

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Leaders of the world's advanced economies have been meeting with counterparts from some of the world's poorest African nations on the first day of the G8 summit in northern Japan. The G8 leaders are facing criticism for failing to come through on pro

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Boy or girl? That's the first question we ask about new babies, new puppies and newly-found fossils. Fossils? Yep. Experts can tell if an ancient Egyptian mummy or a prehistoric human was a boy or a girl just by looking at the skeleton. Here's how th

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