VOA标准英语2012--Experts See Hopeful Agenda at International AIDS Conference

 

Experts See Hopeful Agenda at International AIDS Conference

A new report from the Joint¹ United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS, or UNAIDS, says a record eight million HIV-positive people around the world are now getting life-saving treatment for the virus that causes AIDS, a 20 percent increase over the past year.

At the 19th International AIDS Conference opening in Washington July 22, AIDS activists², experts and government officials hope to make further progress toward zero new HIV infections and zero AIDS-related deaths. The advances in AIDS prevention and treatment over the past few years have been phenomenal and the conference opening in Washington will acknowledge that.

But these advances should benefit those most in need, and the conference will have to address that, says Dr. Eric Goosby, the United States' Global AIDS Coordinator³."

To do that we need partner governments who have the will, the capacity and the ability to mobilize their resources," he said.

The UNAIDS report shows that international AIDS funding has flattened⁴ but 81 countries have increased their domestic investment for AIDS treatment by 50 percent over the past four years.

"We are seeing countries like China who decided⁵ now to completely pay for their HIV response," said Michel Sidibe, UNAIDS's executive director. "It’s the same for India, Russia, Brazil, which were not happening, and that is what I think is the new narrative⁶ in HIV response."

Sidibe says emerging nations have been aggressive in launching new programs for ending pediatric AIDS, increasing access to antiretroviral therapy, and reducing the rate of new HIV infections.

"What we need now is to sustain those results," he said. "What we need is to make sure that we build a new momentum⁷ which will help countries to own their own response because even if we are calling to end AIDS, we know that it will not happen tomorrow morning."

Experts say that with 34 million people still living with HIV and with 2.5 million new infections last year, there's still a lot of work to do.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, of the National Institutes of Health - and a pioneer in the fight against AIDS - says we now have the medical tools to end this epidemic⁸.

"And now it’s the political will and the enthusiasm and the resources that we need to make sure that we implement⁹ it and to scale it up to the highest degree possible - the implementation¹⁰ of interventions¹¹ that we know work," he said. "We know that because we have proven it, it is no longer guess work."

AIDS activists say this year's AIDS Conference comes on the heels of major victories against the disease and amid new hope that an end to the AIDS pandemic is finally within reach. 

1 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
• We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。

2 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》

3 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？

4 flattened   

[医]（水）平扁的，弄平的

参考例句：

• She flattened her nose and lips against the window. 她把鼻子和嘴唇紧贴着窗户。
• I flattened myself against the wall to let them pass. 我身体紧靠着墙让他们通过。

5 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。

6 narrative   

n.叙述，故事；adj.叙事的，故事体的

参考例句：

• He was a writer of great narrative power.他是一位颇有记述能力的作家。
• Neither author was very strong on narrative.两个作者都不是很善于讲故事。

7 momentum   

n.动力，冲力，势头；动量

参考例句：

• We exploit the energy and momentum conservation laws in this way.我们就是这样利用能量和动量守恒定律的。
• The law of momentum conservation could supplant Newton's third law.动量守恒定律可以取代牛顿第三定律。

8 epidemic   

n.流行病；盛行；adj.流行性的，流传极广的

参考例句：

• That kind of epidemic disease has long been stamped out.那种传染病早已绝迹。
• The authorities tried to localise the epidemic.当局试图把流行病限制在局部范围。

9 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。

10 implementation   

n.实施，贯彻

参考例句：

• Implementation of the program is now well underway.这一项目的实施现在行情看好。

11 interventions   

n.介入，干涉，干预( intervention的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Economic analysis of government interventions deserves detailed discussion. 政府对经济的干预应该给予充分的论述。 来自辞典例句
• The judge's frequent interventions made a mockery of justice. 法官的屡屡干预是对正义的践踏。 来自互联网