(1) WHO and (2) Tuberculosis

68 世界卫生组织呼吁加强治疗肺结核

DATE=7-16-01
TITLE=DEVELOPMENT REPORT -  (1) WHO and  (2) Tuberculosis¹
BYLINE=Jill Moss²

(Start at 01'2")This is Bill White with the VOA Special English Development Report. 
The World Health (3) Organization says the disease³ tuberculosis could be brought under control in the next five years if nations would (4) provide more money. The health (5) agency⁴ is asking member countries to give an (6)additional⁵ four-hundred-million dollars a year to help fight the disease. 
(7)Gro Harlem Brundtland heads the World Health Organization in (8)Geneva, (9)Switzerland.  Doctor Brundtland says tuberculosis will be a major (10)target in the coming year.  About eight-million people around the world are sick with tuberculosis, or T-B.  However, only twenty-three percent of these people receive (11)treatment.
Between Nineteen-Ninety-Seven and Nineteen-Ninety-Nine, the total number of tuberculosis (12)infections increased six percent.  This rise in T-B was seen mostly in Africa.  Experts say this is because the disease (13)AIDS has decreased the (14)ability of people's defense⁶ systems to fight T-B.  The W-H-O (15)estimates that one-third of all the people who die from T-B also have AIDS. 
The health agency called for more (16)financial help in a report to the organization's one-hundred-ninety-one members.  The report said about two-million people die each year from T-B.  Nearly all of these deaths are in developing⁷ countries. The W-H-O plans to target twenty-two of the countries most (17)affected by the disease.  These include India, China, (18)Indonesia and (19)Nigeria. 
The W-H-O says the (20)extra money will be used to train more health workers.  The money is also needed to improve health systems in some countries.  And it will be used to help officials who give out and (21)supervise treatment.  The cost of treatment for tuberculosis is low -- only about ten dollars for a full six-month (22)series of (23)drugs.  (24)Patients must take the medicine every day or the treatment will not be (25)effective.  If a patient stops taking the medicine, a new kind of T-B (26)bacteria may develop which is (27)resistant to the drugs. 
The World Health Organization says the additional money could (28)extend T-B treatment to seventy percent of infected people around the world.  The health agency believes the number of T-B deaths could be cut in half by the year Two-Thousand-Ten.  However, without the additional money, the W-H-O expects tuberculosis deaths to increase by one-hundred percent over the next ten years.
This VOA Special English Development Report was written by Jill Moss. This is Bill White.

(1) WHO =  World Health Organization 世界卫生组织
(2) tuberculosis [tju7b[:kju5l[usis] n.肺结核
(3) organization [7C:^Enai5zeiFEn].组织, 机构, 团体
(4) provide [ prE5vaid ] v.供应, 供给
(5) agency [ 5eidVEnsi ] n.代理机构
(6) additional [ E5diFEnl ] adj.额外的
(7) Gro Harlem Brundtland n. [人名] 格罗 哈乐姆 布郎特兰德
(8) Geneva [ dVi5ni:vE ] n.日内瓦城(瑞士西南部城市)
(9) Switzerland [ 5switsElEnd ] n.瑞士(欧洲中部国家)
(10) target [ 5tB:^it ] n.目标
(11) treatment[ 5tri:tmEnt ] n. 治疗
(12) infection [ in5fekFEn ] n.[医] 感染
(13) AIDS [eIdz] n. [医] 爱滋
(14) ability [ E5biliti ] n.能力
(15) estimate [ 5estimeit ] v.估计
(16) financial [ fai5nAnFEl ] adj.财政的, 金融的
(17) affect [ E5fekt ] vt.感染
(18) Indonesia [ 7indEu5ni:zjE ] n.印尼(东南亚岛国)
(19) Nigeria [ nai5dViEriE ] n.尼日利亚(非洲中西部国家)
(20) extra [ 5ekstrE ] adj.额外的
(21) supervise [ 5sju:pEvaiz ] v.监督, 管理
(22) series [ 5siEri:z ] n.连续
(23) drug [ drQ^ ] n.药
(24) patient [ 5peiFEnt ] n.病人, 患者
(25) effective [ i5fektiv ] adj.有效的
(26) bacteria [ bAk5tiEriE ] n.细菌
(27) resistant [ ri5zistEnt ] adj.有抵抗力的
(28) extend [ iks5tend ] v.给予, 提供

1 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。

2 moss   

n.苔，藓，地衣

参考例句：

• Moss grows on a rock.苔藓生在石头上。
• He was found asleep on a pillow of leaves and moss.有人看见他枕着树叶和苔藓睡着了。

3 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。

4 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。

5 additional   

adj.添加的，额外的，另外的

参考例句：

• It is necessary to set down these additional rules.有必要制定这些补充规则。
• I think we can fit in an additional room.我想我们可以再加建一间房子。

6 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

7 developing   

adj.发展中的

参考例句：

• Transport has always been the key to developing trade.运输一直是发展贸易的关键。
• They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。