VOA标准英语2008年-Bill Clinton Ends Africa Trip with Appeal for H

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton wrapped up a three-day, four country trip to Africa with an address at a hospital in Senegal. Brent Latham reports from our West Africa bureau in Dakar, Clinton praised a French-led project to provide medicine to children in developing countries infected with HIV.
　

Bill Clinton in Dakar, Senegal, 03 Aug, 2008

Former President Bill Clinton addressed an audience of about 200 people outside a hospital in Dakar, Senegal. The former president spoke² after touring a ward³ of the hospital where HIV-positive children are treated.

Mr. Clinton spoke about his foundation's partnership⁴ with the UNITAID initiative that was founded in 2006 by France, Brazil, Chile, Norway and the United Kingdom to find innovative⁵ ways to finance medicine for the worldwide fight against AIDS, tuberculosis⁶, and malaria⁷.

Mr. Clinton praised the UNITAID initiative for helping⁸ to drastically lower the cost of HIV treatment for children in developing countries.

"Now that we have, thanks to UNITAID, access to the pediatric anti-retroviral medicine, the World Health Organization said, from now on, infants should be treated as soon as they are diagnosed HIV positive. This has the potential to reduce the rate of childhood death and morbidity⁹ four fold. It has staggering implications for how we care for our children throughout the world for the next several years," the former president said.

Mr. Clinton said efforts by UNITAID have gone a long way to help poor children infected with HIV.

Mr. Clinton, flanked by the French Minister of International Cooperation and Senegal's Minister of Health, said the UNITAID initiative and the Clinton Foundation have succeeded in helping to lower the price of anti-retroviral treatment for children tenfold in recent years. He said the accomplishment¹⁰ was made possible by facilitating an increase in the scale of drug production by raising the number of children treated.

Mr. Clinton said five years ago only 10,000 poor children worldwide were receiving treatment for HIV. Half a million were dying of AIDS each year. Today more than 200,000 are being treated, fulfilling the universal right to access medicine, Mr. Clinton says.

"It is all very well to talk about how everybody has a universal right to medicine but if you do not have it, a right is not really a right," Mr. Clinton said. "An unexercised right does not really exist."
　

Chelsea Clinton, left, with father, Bill Clinton in Dakar, Senegal, 03 Aug 2008

The stop in Dakar was the last on Mr. Clinton's three day tour of Africa which also included visits to Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Liberia.

The Clinton delegation¹¹ included daughter Chelsea and actor Ted¹ Danson.

Mr. Clinton said the trip was meant to review the efforts of the Clinton Foundation to deal with HIV/AIDS, build comprehensive national health networks, create economic opportunity, and fight the problems of global warming.

1 ted   

vt.翻晒，撒，撒开

参考例句：

• The invaders gut ted the village.侵略者把村中财物洗劫一空。
• She often teds the corn when it's sunny.天好的时候她就翻晒玉米。

2 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

3 ward   

n.守卫，监护，病房，行政区，由监护人或法院保护的人（尤指儿童）；vt.守护，躲开

参考例句：

• The hospital has a medical ward and a surgical ward.这家医院有内科病房和外科病房。
• During the evening picnic,I'll carry a torch to ward off the bugs.傍晚野餐时，我要点根火把，抵挡蚊虫。

4 partnership   

n.合作关系，伙伴关系

参考例句：

• The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
• Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。

5 innovative   

adj.革新的，新颖的，富有革新精神的

参考例句：

• Discover an innovative way of marketing.发现一个创新的营销方式。
• He was one of the most creative and innovative engineers of his generation.他是他那代人当中最富创造性与革新精神的工程师之一。

6 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。

7 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。

8 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

9 morbidity   

n.病态；不健全；发病；发病率

参考例句：

• MC's also significantly reduce the morbidity and mortality induced by honeybee venom. 肥大细胞同样也能显著降低蜜蜂毒液诱发疾病的发病率和死亡率。 来自互联网
• The result shows that incidence of myopia morbidity is 44.84%. 结果表明：近视眼的发病率为44.84%。 来自互联网

10 accomplishment   

n.完成，成就，（pl.）造诣，技能

参考例句：

• The series of paintings is quite an accomplishment.这一系列的绘画真是了不起的成就。
• Money will be crucial to the accomplishment of our objectives.要实现我们的目标，钱是至关重要的。

11 delegation   

n.代表团；派遣

参考例句：

• The statement of our delegation was singularly appropriate to the occasion.我们代表团的声明非常适合时宜。
• We shall inform you of the date of the delegation's arrival.我们将把代表团到达的日期通知你。