DEVELOPMENT REPORT - Fighting Malaria, Part 2

DEVELOPMENT REPORT - Fighting Malaria¹, Part 2
By Karen Leggett

Broadcast: Monday, August 02, 2004

This is Robert Cohen with the VOA Special English Development Report.

Today we report on some national programs against malaria.

In Zambia, the disease² killed at least twenty thousand children in the year two-thousand-one. Now Zambia has money from the Global Fund³ to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis⁴ and Malaria. This money is to buy new and more costly⁵ medicines that treat malaria.

 
Child sick with malaria
Government and private groups are both involved in this effort. Religious groups that provide health care are also giving people bed nets treated with chemicals. These kill the mosquitoes that spread malaria.

Tanzania became the first government in Africa to end all taxes on treated bed nets. Pregnant⁶ women will receive one free of charge. Local stores will get money for the nets from an organization financed⁷ by the Global Fund.

Nearly all the nets used are made in Tanzania. Officials say seventy percent of homes in Tanzania should have at least one chemically treated bed net by two-thousand-six.

 
African baby stricken with malaria
The United States Agency⁸ for International Development has a program called NetMark. The purpose is to make treated nets easier to get in several African countries. These include Zambia, Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal.

More than six hundred thousand bed nets were purchased in these countries through NetMark in two-thousand-two. It is important to treat the nets with chemicals again after six months. So NetMark also makes that possible. In addition, a mining company in Zambia developed a chemical to be sprayed¹⁰ in five cities to kill mosquitoes.

Experts say these ways to fight malaria are already working in Vietnam. Local health care workers are trained to recognize and treat the infection quickly. Pregnant women get medicine to prevent malaria, and families receive free bed nets. Health workers in Vietnam hope to reduce deaths from malaria by fifty percent over the next five years.

In Sri Lanka, a local group called the Sarvodaya Malaria Project prints materials about the disease. Children receive the information in school.

Also, workers spray⁹ houses and plants to kill mosquitoes. Workers close unused wells and waterways where the insects can lay eggs. Health workers in Sri Lanka visit houses in villages. They make sure families all know how to use nets on their beds, and how to re-treat them.

This VOA Special English Development Report was written by Karen Leggett. This is Robert Cohen.

1 malaria   

n.疟疾

参考例句：

• He had frequent attacks of malaria.他常患疟疾。
• Malaria is a kind of serious malady.疟疾是一种严重的疾病。

2 disease   

n.疾病，弊端

参考例句：

• The doctors are trying to stamp out the disease.医生正在尽力消灭这种疾病。
• He fought against the disease for a long time.他同疾病做了长时间的斗争。

3 fund   

n.基金，资金，存款，财源，贮藏；vt.提供资金，积累

参考例句：

• They decided to set up a fund for this purpose.他们决定为此专立一项基金。
• This fund may not be drawn on without permission.这笔钱非经批准不得动用。

4 tuberculosis   

n.结核病，肺结核

参考例句：

• People used to go to special health spring to recover from tuberculosis.人们常去温泉疗养胜地治疗肺结核。
• Tuberculosis is a curable disease.肺结核是一种可治愈的病。

5 costly   

adj.昂贵的，价值高的，豪华的

参考例句：

• It must be very costly to keep up a house like this.维修这么一幢房子一定很昂贵。
• This dictionary is very useful,only it is a bit costly.这本词典很有用，左不过贵了些。

6 pregnant   

adj.怀孕的，怀胎的

参考例句：

• She is a pregnant woman.她是一名孕妇。
• She is pregnant with her first child.她怀了第一胎。

7 financed   

为…供给资金，从事金融活动( finance的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Capital expenditure can be financed by borrowing; operating expenditure should not. 资本支出可以靠借款，而运营费用不行。
• All purchases shall be financed with the proceeds of loan. 全部货款用贷款支付。

8 agency   

n.经办；代理；代理处

参考例句：

• This disease is spread through the agency of insects.这种疾病是通过昆虫媒介传播的。
• He spoke in the person of Xinhua News Agency.他代表新华社讲话。

9 spray   

v.喷，(使)溅散；n.浪花，飞沫；喷雾

参考例句：

• The liquid came out of the bottle in a spray.液体从瓶子里呈雾状喷出。
• We were wet with the sea spray.我们被海水的浪花溅湿。

10 sprayed   

v.喷( spray的过去式和过去分词 )；向…扫射（或抛洒），往…上撒；尤指雄猫撒尿（以示领地占有）

参考例句：

• They sprayed aerosol insect repellent into the faces of police. 他们将喷雾驱虫剂喷在了警察的脸上。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The front of the house had been sprayed with white paint. 房子的正面已喷上了白漆。 来自《简明英汉词典》