VOA常速英语2019--尼日利亚非营利组织走上街头，提升公众防癌意识（在线收听）

Nigeria Non-Profits Take Cancer Awareness To The Streets

Zainab Mohammed was a chief administrator with Nigeria’s Judicial Service Commission when she was diagnosed with a malignancy in her left breast in October.

Zainab Mohammed是尼日利亚司法服务委员会的一名行政长官，今年十月份，她的左侧乳房被查出有一个恶性肿瘤。

I saw their result. The doctor said suspicious malignancy.

“我看到了诊断结果，医生说可能是一个恶性肿瘤。 

I know when it’s a malignant, it means cancer.

我知道，这个恶性肿瘤就代表着癌症。 

That was when I was like my life has end. I was like dead.

那时我感觉我的生命已经走到了尽头，我无法活下去了。” 

With little faith about her survival, Zainab started fighting the disease, but the medical bills never stopped.

Zainab没有报什么希望，只是和疾病斗争着，但是医药费一直是个问题。 

Managing cancer is very expensive. I had to look for funds from friends, family, and friends.

“治疗癌症要花的钱实在太多了。我没办法，只好找亲戚朋友借钱。 

And at the end , I had to sell a house to pay for my medications.

到最后，我只能卖掉房子来筹集医药费。” 

By WHO estimates, some 41,000 cancer-related deaths took place in Nigeria in 2018, the highest mortality rate in the world.

据世界卫生组织估计，2018年，尼日利亚大概有41000人死于与癌症有关的疾病，这一数字居世界首位。

While unhealthy lifestyles and habits play a role, lower awareness, lack of treatment facilities and the high cost of treatment in Nigeria are the major reasons for mortality rate is high.

造成这一现象的因素包括人们不健康的生活方式和习惯，而意识观念淡薄，治疗设施匮乏，看病成本高是造成尼日利亚癌症患者死亡率如此之高的最主要原因。

Medical experts like Aminu Aliyu say the problem is serious.

像Aminu Aliyu这样的医学专家表示这一问题十分严重。 

Within 2012, we had an increase in the number of incidence of cancer patients from 12, 14 million, to about 18 million in 2018.

“2012年，全球新增1400万癌症病例，而2018年新增病例上涨到了1800万。 

The statistics for 2019 yet come out and the deaths about 8.2 million to 9.6

2019年的统计数据还没有出来， 死亡人数约为820万至960万之间。” 

Nigerian authorities launched a national cancer control plan last year in an effort to fix the problem.

去年，尼日利亚政府发起了一项国家癌症控制方案努力解决该问题。 

Early in the week, the government announced 15% discounts on chemotherapy treatments for patients.

本周早些时候，尼政府宣布癌症患者接受化疗时可享受15%的优惠。 

In October, several thousands marched the streets to create awareness and raise funds for treatment of the patients .

十月份，数千人上街游行，希望提升人们的意识，并为癌症病人筹集资金。 

Medicaid Foundation, a nonprofit in Nigeria has been serving patients for eight years.

医疗补助基金会是尼日利亚的一家非盈利组织，为癌症患者提供帮助已有8年。 

So far we’ve raised over a million dollars. We’ve impacted over 200,000 people, we helped them.

“到现在为止，我们已经筹集了100多万美元，我们的爱心已经帮到了20多万人。 

And we operate all over Nigeria. The impact is high in my state in Kebbi where my husband is the governor,

我们的身影出现在整个尼日利亚，在我的丈夫担任州长的凯比州，也就是我的家乡，反响尤其高， 

because we reached all the 21 local government areas where we talk to people, we create awareness.

因为我们去到了21个当地政府，和那里的人进行交流，提高公众意识。 

As the second leading cause of deaths globally, the impact of cancer is often greater in low and middle income countries including Nigeria which lack adequate resources to support cancer policies for their citizens.

癌症是全球导致死亡的第二大原因，它对中低收入国家的影响尤为严重，尼日利亚也是其中之一。这里缺乏充足的资源，去支持那些利于民众、与癌症相关的政策。

Making fundraising and awareness even more critical.

筹集资金，提高公众意识更为重要。