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DEVELOPMENT REPORT

July 15, 2002: US Money for AIDS in Africa

By Jill Moss1


This is the VOA Special English Development Report.

President Bush has announced a new five-hundred-million dollar plan to help prevent the spread of the AIDS
virus in developing countries. Mister Bush said the money will be used in several countries in Africa and the
Caribbean to prevent pregnant women from passing the AIDS virus to their babies.

Each day, more than two-thousand babies become infected with H-I-V, the virus that causes AIDS. Infected
mothers pass the virus to their babies either during pregnancy2, birth or while breast-feeding. The Bush proposal
seeks to provide medicine for one-million pregnant women and their babies each year during the next five years.
The goal is to reduce the number of infected babies by forty percent. The program also hopes to build health
systems so that mothers and other adults can receive tests and treatment for AIDS and H-I-V.

Earlier this year, Congress approved two-hundred-million dollars to fight AIDS.
The new Bush plan will increase that amount by three-hundred-million dollars over
the next two years. President Bush says the money will be spent in ten African and
Caribbean countries. They are Botswana, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Kenya,
Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda, Guyana, and Haiti. United States
government agencies will carry out the plan.

President Bush announced his new plan last month before traveling to Canada for a

meeting of the world’s seven leading industrialized countries and Russia. A top issue discussed at the Group of
Eight meeting was aid to Africa. The Bush Administration had been under growing international pressure to
show support for poor countries. Administration officials hope its new AIDS proposal will ease criticism about
American aid to developing nations.

Last year, more than five-million people were infected with H-I-V. About seven-hundred-thousand of those
victims were babies. President Bush said that medical science has provided the power to help save these young
lives. He said this is something the United States must do.

Mister Bush recently announced he will visit Africa next year. He said the trip will seek to increase trade between
the United States and African nations. He said other goals are to reduce poverty, protect workers’
rights and
support human rights.

This VOA Special English Development Report was written by Jill Moss.


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1 moss X6QzA     
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。
2 pregnancy lPwxP     
n.怀孕,怀孕期
参考例句:
  • Early pregnancy is often accompanied by nausea.怀孕早期常有恶心的现象。
  • Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of miscarriage.怀孕期吸烟会增加流产的危险。

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