VOA标准英语2010年-Young HIV/AIDS Activists Demand Respec

"...we should learn from adults and established leaders and they should learn from us as well."

At the 18th International AIDS Conference in Vienna, young people spoke¹ out about how they’re affected² by the pandemic and what they’re doing about it.

The speakers - all in their 20s - have never known a world without HIV/AIDS.  The pandemic is 30 years old.  At AIDS 2010, they had a message for those of the older generation: Treat us with respect – and give us the resources and responsibility to make a difference.

 “There’s age stigma³ and discrimination and stereotypes⁵.  What we can call ageism, where adults are saying a young person is too young.  You’re so irresponsible.  You cannot do this,” says Remmy Shawa.

Remmy Shawa

Shawa is part of a U.N. youth program and who started a men and gender⁶ program at the University of Zambia. He says the HIV/AIDS youth movement poses no threat to the establishment.

“We should not think of this movement as a way of taking over from the established leaders and abolishing everything that they’re doing.  I think it’s a partnership⁷ we are fighting for.  That we should learn from adults and established leaders and they should learn from us as well.  So that we can implement⁸.  We can plan.  We can deliver together.”

Don’t judge us

Chantale Kallas of Lebanon says young people need mentors⁹ and counselors¹⁰ who are non-judgmental.

“I’ve been working with young people who use drugs.  And I have seen people working with them with the judgment¹¹ and the stereotype⁴ in their head the whole time.  This is not human rights based,” she says.

AIDS 2010
Chantale Kallas

Kallas is regional coordinator¹² for the group Youth Rise.  She says often, before young people get involved in large treatment or prevention programs, they simply need the basics.

“At the end of the day,” she says, “what these young people are asking for is sometimes only food and shelter.  So we should be able to give them these resources before starting to talk about more things and more complicated resources.”

Catlin Chandler of the United States is coordinator of the HIV Youth Leaders Fund.  She says 40 percent of new HIV infections occur among young people.  But she says donors¹³ often don’t have a clear strategy of how to deal with it.

“Often, we see that donors allocate¹⁴ large amounts of money, especially in HIV prevention, to what they think is a sexy, multi-media way of reaching young people.  I’m talking about campaigns like LoveLife in South Africa.  There’s a new one every day,” she says.

Caitlin Chandler

She adds, “Most of these campaigns never reach the young people who are most in need of prevention services and information.  If diverse youth populations were actually involved in the development of HIV prevention campaigns, imagine how different the results could be.”

What, no tweets?

Chandler outlines what youth need to succeed.

Donors need to realize that young people need more than Twitter campaigns and social media sites to live healthy lives.  They need access to clean needles.  They need sexual and reproductive health services that are nondiscriminatory.  They need protection from police.  They need the space in which to make informed choices.  And they also need funding to advocate for their own needs,” she says.

Sydney Hushie of Ghana says while youth are demanding more responsibility and resources, they must also be willing to be accountable for their actions.

Sydney Hushie

“If we as young people demand accountability from adults, our government and all the other people that we look up to, we should first look at being accountable to ourselves as young people – and also to the constituency that gave us the legitimacy¹⁵ that we have as young people to do what we do,” he says.  Hushie is program coordinator for the Global Youth Coalition¹⁶ on HIV and AIDS in Accra.
 

1 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。

2 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。

3 stigma   

n.耻辱，污名；(花的)柱头

参考例句：

• Being an unmarried mother used to carry a social stigma.做未婚母亲在社会上曾是不光彩的事。
• The stigma of losing weighed heavily on the team.失败的耻辱让整个队伍压力沉重。

4 stereotype   

n.固定的形象，陈规，老套，旧框框

参考例句：

• He's my stereotype of a schoolteacher.他是我心目中的典型教师。
• There's always been a stereotype about successful businessmen.人们对于成功商人一直都有一种固定印象。

5 stereotypes   

n.老套，模式化的见解，有老一套固定想法的人( stereotype的名词复数 )v.把…模式化，使成陈规( stereotype的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• Such jokes tend to reinforce racial stereotypes. 这样的笑话容易渲染种族偏见。
• It makes me sick to read over such stereotypes devoid of content. 这种空洞无物的八股调，我看了就讨厌。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

6 gender   

n.（生理上的）性，（名词、代词等的）性

参考例句：

• French differs from English in having gender for all nouns.法语不同于英语，所有的名词都有性。
• Women are sometimes denied opportunities solely because of their gender.妇女有时仅仅因为性别而无法获得种种机会。

7 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。

8 implement   

n.(pl.)工具，器具；vt.实行，实施，执行

参考例句：

• Don't undertake a project unless you can implement it.不要承担一项计划，除非你能完成这项计划。
• The best implement for digging a garden is a spade.在花园里挖土的最好工具是铁锹。

9 mentors   

n.（无经验之人的）有经验可信赖的顾问( mentor的名词复数 )v.（无经验之人的）有经验可信赖的顾问( mentor的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• Beacham and McNamara, my two mentors, had both warned me. 我的两位忠实朋友，比彻姆和麦克纳马拉都曾经警告过我。 来自辞典例句
• These are the kinds of contacts that could evolve into mentors. 这些人是可能会成为你导师。 来自互联网

10 counselors   

n.顾问( counselor的名词复数 )；律师；（使馆等的）参赞；（协助学生解决问题的）指导老师

参考例句：

• Counselors began an inquiry into industrial needs. 顾问们开始调查工业方面的需要。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• We have experienced counselors available day and night. ) 这里有经验的法律顾问全天候值班。） 来自超越目标英语 第4册

11 judgment   

n.审判；判断力，识别力，看法，意见

参考例句：

• The chairman flatters himself on his judgment of people.主席自认为他审视人比别人高明。
• He's a man of excellent judgment.他眼力过人。

12 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？

13 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》

14 allocate   

vt.分配，分派；把…拨给；把…划归

参考例句：

• You must allocate the money carefully.你们必须谨慎地分配钱。
• They will allocate fund for housing.他们将拨出经费建房。

15 legitimacy   

n.合法，正当

参考例句：

• The newspaper was directly challenging the government's legitimacy.报纸直接质疑政府的合法性。
• Managing from the top down,we operate with full legitimacy.我们进行由上而下的管理有充分的合法性。

16 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。