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(101) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2018年(十一月)

AS IT IS 2013-12-17 WHO: Test, Treat Malnourished Children for HIV 世卫组织帮助营养不良儿童治疗艾滋病毒 From VOA Learning English, welcome to As It Is. Im Steve Ember in Washington. Today on our program, we tell about a study that s

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AS IT IS 2016-03-31 Asian Children Face Hunger and Obesity 亚洲儿童面临饥饿和肥胖两重天 Asian children are becoming increasingly under-nourished or obese, a new report says. 有报告显示:亚洲儿童营养过剩现象增加 The Uni

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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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ERIGAVO, SOMALILAND As the breakaway republic of Somaliland grapples with a severe drought, medical workers are struggling to aid people left weakened by malnourishment and hunger. A 70-year-old hospital in Erigavo, the capital of the Sanaag region,

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Ethiopia's eastern lowlands bordering Somalia are suffering through a severe drought. The rainy season was late and not enough, causing devastating losses among local livestock herds. Coming on the heels of two previous dry years in Ethiopia, the dro

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Now, there's been some action, too. 现在,人们也已经有所行动。 Over the past decade, six major health care providers and insurers have committed over 600 million dollars to affordable housing, 在过去几十年,6家主要医疗保健提

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AS IT IS 2014-08-30 Vietnam, We Have a Nutrition Problem 越南有一个营养问题,很多儿童营养不良 Vietnam has a nutrition problem: too many of its children are underweight. Yet more and more Vietnamese boys and girls are becoming overweig

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Congratulations America! You are no longer the worlds most obese country. But it may be a little too early to start celebrating . This does not mean Americans are getting thinner, just that another country has gotten fatter. Mexico now has the highes

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IV. Speaking Out MODEL 1 Why are people protesting against genetically modified foods? Susan: With so many people suffering from malnutrition around the world, why are people protesting against genetically modified foods? Chris: Some people are prote

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 19 September 2009 Gregorio Jimenez, 34, eats lunch with his son Darwin, 3, who suffers from malnutrition, at a hospital in Japala, Guatemala, 10 Sep 2009 United Nations agencies say Guatemala is facing the worst drought in 30

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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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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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DAVID GREENE, HOST: We're going to hear now about the global effort to reduce hunger. In 1990, about a fourth of people on the planet were not getting enough to eat. Today it's less than half that. And a couple years ago, this progress inspired world

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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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A senior U.N. official says there is an alarming rate of malnutrition among Burma's children. The head of the World Food Program is urging the government to change policies that he says are hurting efforts to combat the problem. 一名联合国高级官

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This would be a brave performance anywhere in the world. But here in China, it's an invitation to ridicule. In a country where most people are naturally slim, being overweight, especially if you are a woman, is frowned upon. But these dancers, they c

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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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第一、迷你对话 A: How is Jim recently ?Jim最近如何? B: He has lost his job, and his wife died from cancer not long before. 他丢了工作,他的妻子不就前又死于癌症。 A: Poor guy! It will take him a long time to get back on

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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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