VOA标准英语2014--GO Fights Ebola Fear and Stigma

NGO Fights Ebola Fear and Stigma An NGO said containing the West Africa Ebola epidemic will require overcoming fear and stigma surrounding the disease. ActionAid says the high death rate has caused a lack of faith in the medical system. The group is

VOA慢速英语2011-Mentors Try to Improve Lives of Homeless

A mentor is someone who teaches or advises a younger person with less experience. January is National Mentoring Month in the United States. This is a time for calling attention to the value of mentoring. Some mentoring programs connect adults with ch

VOA慢速英语2011--Three Innovators Who Changed the History

EXPLORATIONS - Three Innovators Who Changed the History of Sound and Communication Technologies STEVE EMBER: Im Steve Ember. BARBARA KLEIN: And Im Barbara Klein with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today we tell about three inventors wh

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Gloria Mengual was treated differently because of epilepsy; one day changed that On Friday mornings, we bring you StoryCorps, the project that collects your stories across the country. And today we will meet Gloria Mengual, who described one thing t

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图片1 图片2 by Jason Marshall In the last article, we discovered that integers alone are not sufficient to fully describe the world around uswe need the fractions existing between the integers too. (In learning that, we also learned that fraction

2007年VOA标准英语-Bhutan Welcomes Visitors, Just Not Too Many and

By Steve Herman Thimpu, Bhutan 21 May 2007 To the outside world the small Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan is regarded as a modern-day Shangri-La. Nestled along the eastern side of the Himalayas, wedged between Tibet and India, Bhutan sees few outsiders. A

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2006年VOA标准英语-Health Conference Tackles Issues, Stigma of HIV

By Lisa Ferdinando Miami 25 July 2006 Healthcare professionals are in Miami for a two-day conference on HIV/AIDS and the Latino population. Erik Estrada Latino actor Erik Estrada was a guest speaker at the 2006 National Conference on Latinos and AID

美国国家公共电台 NPR How One Pop-Up Restaurant Is Fighting Stigma Against HIV/AIDS

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A U.S. Congressional delegation is in Iraq to meet with the country's interim government leaders and U.S. military commanders. Amid continuing violence, the senators say Iraq still needs U.S. and coalition support, and vowed to see the job through. 一

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VOA常速英语2007-Liberia Health Campaign Battles Stigma of Lepros

By Kari Barber Dakar 30 October 2007 Health workers in Liberia say it has been difficult to battle leprosy in the country and treat those who have it, because of the stigma associated with the disease. It has long been a local belief that the illnes

VOA常速英语2007-UNICEF: Stigma Hampers HIV/AIDS Prevention, Trea

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 17 October 2007 The U.N. Children's Fund says the stigmatization of HIV/AIDS in South Africa hampers prevention and treatment of the disease. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from Geneva that UNICEF says more aggressive leadership

VOA标准英语2009年-World AIDS Day - Ongoing Stigma Hinder

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