2006年VOA标准英语-Report Says AIDS Treatment Lagging in Poor Nati

By David McAlary
Washington
29 November 2006

As World AIDS Day approaches on December 1, activists¹ complain that the international community is falling short of providing treatment for HIV in developing countries. VOA's David McAlary reports that the main global AIDS program financing agency hopes donors² will boost their contributions during next year's round of pledging.

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A 44-year-old mother affected³ by HIV/AIDS, holds her daughter, 7, who also is affected by the disease, at a healing community center, some 50 kilometers  south of Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh, Nov. 29, 2006
The United Nations AIDS Program says 40 million people are living with HIV. The World Health Organization had a goal of getting three million of them in developing nations on drug treatment by the end of 2005, but this so-called "three by five" deadline passed without being met.

"One year later, the world is still one million people short of the three by five goal,"  said Christopher Collins, who is a member of the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition⁴, a group of 800 HIV treatment activists from more than 125 countries. The coalition has issued a report saying that, despite important areas of progress, the AIDS treatment delivery effort is at risk of stagnating⁵.

"In every country we analyzed⁶, the number receiving AIDS drugs is dwarfed⁷ by the number in urgent need," he continued.  "There remain huge funding gaps and the crisis in human resources is not receiving sufficient attention. Many national governments have failed to make delivery of AIDS treatment to their citizens a priority. No clear global targets have been set for scale-up of AIDS services."

Collins says more people are getting treatment every year, but the pace is too slow to meet the United Nations AIDS Program goal of about 10 million people on HIV drugs by 2010. He says at the current pace, only half that many will receive treatment by then.

The World Health Organization says the international community has decided⁸ not to set another interim⁹ treatment target like three by five. The chief of its HIV/AIDS Department, Dr. Kevin DeCock, says that, instead, countries must take greater responsibility by setting their own national treatment goals. DeCock says a new WHO five-year strategic plan outlines how the agency will help nations in five key technical areas.

"Those five priorities are the following: The scaling up of HIV testing and counseling; reinforcing prevention; continuing treatment scale-up; strengthening health systems; and investing in surveillance, monitoring, and evaluation¹⁰ that can guide the health sector¹¹ response to the epidemic," he says.

But meeting those goals will take money, which is in short supply.  Contributions to the main financier of AIDS programs worldwide - the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis¹² and Malaria  - are $1 billion short, according to Anurita Bains, the Special Assistant to the United Nations Envoy¹³ on HIV/AIDS in Africa.

"We have a serious problem with resources in order to fund universal access to treatment. If we are talking about scaling up to universal access to treatment, we need a sustainable long-term commitment to resources," Bains says.

Bains says the funding shortfall undermines the goal of universal access to HIV treatment and prevention services established in 2005 by the world's eight major powers, the G8.

The head of the Global Fund, Richard Feacham, issued a statement saying the organization shares the impatience¹⁴ of the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition. He says programs financed by the fund have more than doubled the number of people getting AIDS treatment, but far too many people still need them. Feacham says a priority is to secure additional resources at the next round of Global Fund pledging to begin next March.

 
Ambassador Mark Dybul (file)
The coordinator¹⁵ for the U.S. government's global AIDS programs, Mark Dybul, says the United States is doing its part with President Bush's commitment of $15 billion over five years, but he adds that others should do more.

"So we're providing more than half of what everyone else in the world us providing," Dybul says. "So we hope the rest of the world steps up and does so, maybe around World AIDS Day, to have a commitment that matches the commitment of the American people to stand with the people of the world on HIV/AIDS."

The charitable medical group Doctors Without Borders says that, whatever the amount raised, expanding AIDS treatment in poor countries will fail unless there are generic¹⁶ alternatives to the costly¹⁷ newer medicines. It says the latest drug regimens the World Health Organization recommends to overcome resistance to older drugs can be six times more expensive than today's most commonly used generic combination.  

1 activists   

n.（政治活动的）积极分子，活动家( activist的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
• Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 donors   

n.捐赠者( donor的名词复数 )；献血者；捐血者；器官捐献者

参考例句：

• Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去，请给我们发电子邮件。
• About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。

4 coalition   

n.结合体，同盟，结合，联合

参考例句：

• The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
• Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。

5 stagnating   

v.停滞，不流动，不发展( stagnate的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• I feel I'm stagnating in this job. 我觉得，干这份工作我没有长进。
• ITT was stagnating when Geneen became the chief executive officer in 1959. 1959年吉宁出任行政总负责人时，国际电话电报公司正处于不景气时期。 来自辞典例句

6 analyzed   

v.分析( analyze的过去式和过去分词 )；分解；解释；对…进行心理分析

参考例句：

• The doctors analyzed the blood sample for anemia. 医生们分析了贫血的血样。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The young man did not analyze the process of his captivation and enrapturement, for love to him was a mystery and could not be analyzed. 这年轻人没有分析自己蛊惑著迷的过程，因为对他来说，爱是个不可分析的迷。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 dwarfed   

vt.（使）显得矮小（dwarf的过去式与过去分词形式）

参考例句：

• The old houses were dwarfed by the huge new tower blocks. 这些旧房子在新建的高楼大厦的映衬下显得十分矮小。
• The elephant dwarfed the tortoise. 那只乌龟跟那头象相比就显得很小。 来自《简明英汉词典》

8 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

9 interim   

adj.暂时的，临时的；n.间歇，过渡期间

参考例句：

• The government is taking interim measures to help those in immediate need.政府正在采取临时措施帮助那些有立即需要的人。
• It may turn out to be an interim technology.这可能只是个过渡技术。

10 evaluation   

n.估价，评价；赋值

参考例句：

• I attempted an honest evaluation of my own life.我试图如实地评价我自己的一生。
• The new scheme is still under evaluation.新方案还在评估阶段。

11 sector   

n.部门，部分；防御地段，防区；扇形

参考例句：

• The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
• The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。

12 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。

13 envoy   

n.使节，使者，代表，公使

参考例句：

• Their envoy showed no sign of responding to our proposals.他们的代表对我方的提议毫无回应的迹象。
• The government has not yet appointed an envoy to the area.政府尚未向这一地区派过外交官。

14 impatience   

n.不耐烦，急躁

参考例句：

• He expressed impatience at the slow rate of progress.进展缓慢，他显得不耐烦。
• He gave a stamp of impatience.他不耐烦地跺脚。

15 coordinator   

n.协调人

参考例句：

• The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, headed by the Emergency Relief Coordinator, coordinates all UN emergency relief. 联合国人道主义事务协调厅在紧急救济协调员领导下，负责协调联合国的所有紧急救济工作。
• How am I supposed to find the client-relations coordinator? 我怎么才能找到客户关系协调员的办公室？

16 generic   

adj.一般的，普通的，共有的

参考例句：

• I usually buy generic clothes instead of name brands.我通常买普通的衣服，不买名牌。
• The generic woman appears to have an extraordinary faculty for swallowing the individual.一般妇女在婚后似乎有特别突出的抑制个性的能力。

17 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。