世界卫生组织迫切要求大规模的健康计划投资

 

WHO Urges Massive Investment in Health Programs

 世界卫生组织迫切要求大规模的健康计划投资

 

Leading health and science experts say improving health is essential for reducing poverty around the world.  Health experts say the world must immediately increase funding in health programs in order to achieve U.N. targets set five-years ago.

 

At a summit on the millennium¹ in 2000, the United Nations established a goal of cutting global poverty in half by the year 2015.  The director-general of the World Health Organization, Lee Jong-wook, says health is at the heart of the U.N. Millennium Development Project to reduce poverty.

 

Lee Jong-wook: In many situations, improved the health is impossible without poverty reduction just as health is indispensable for the fight against the poverty.

 

The United Nations estimates more than one billion people in the world live on less than $1 a day and nearly three billion more struggle to survive on less than $2 a day. The World Health Organization (WHO) says poverty leads to ill health and this results in more than 11 million child deaths a year, six million of them from preventable diseases.

 

Health experts say Africa is the continent that suffers most from poverty and disease. 

 

For example, WHO finds more than 50 percent of Africans suffer from water-related diseases such as cholera² and infant diarrhea.  It says more than one million children in Africa die of malaria³ every year; more people in Africa are infected with HIV and die of AIDS-related causes than anywhere else in the world.

 

The Millennium Project set up five groups to tackle problems of HIV, tuberculosis⁴, malaria, access to essential medicines and child and maternal⁵ health. 

 

U.N. project health advisor⁶ Margaret Kruk says all the groups agree that health systems in the poor countries must be strengthened, that official development aid should be increased, and special attention be given to female health and AIDS prevention.

 

Margaret Kruk: It wants to infuse prevention with the same urgency now that we are now seeing in the treatment efforts. In countries with concentrated epidemics⁸, the group recommends focusing prevention and treatment efforts on vulnerable groups. In particular enhancing their human rights and their status in society as a way of preventing spread, but also of recognizing the stand-alone human rights of those groups.

 

In addition to strengthening the AIDS-prevention campaign, Millennium Project advisers⁹ are also calling for wider distribution of insecticide-treated nets and malaria drugs to people living in malaria infested¹⁰ communities.  They are also seeking more intensive TB care, as well as greater health services for expectant mothers and skilled attendants at delivery to reduce child and maternal deaths.

 

The Millennium Project says meeting the goal of cutting poverty in half by 2015 will not be cheap. It estimates it will cost 135-billion dollars in 2006, increasing to $195 billion by 2015.

 

Lisa Schlein, for VOA news, Geneva.

 

注释：

essential [i5senFEl] adj. 本质的

target [5tB:^it] n. 目标

indispensable [7indis5pensEbl] adj. 不可缺少的

tuberculosis [tju7bE:kju5lEusis] n. 肺结核

malaria [mE5lZEriE] n. 疟疾，瘴气

epidemic⁷ [7epi5demik] n. 流行病

1 millennium   

n.一千年，千禧年；太平盛世

参考例句：

• The whole world was counting down to the new millennium.全世界都在倒计时迎接新千年的到来。
• We waited as the clock ticked away the last few seconds of the old millennium.我们静候着时钟滴答走过千年的最后几秒钟。

2 cholera   

n.霍乱

参考例句：

• The cholera outbreak has been contained.霍乱的发生已被控制住了。
• Cholera spread like wildfire through the camps.霍乱在营地里迅速传播。

3 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。

4 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。

5 maternal   

adj.母亲的，母亲般的，母系的，母方的

参考例句：

• He is my maternal uncle.他是我舅舅。
• The sight of the hopeless little boy aroused her maternal instincts.那个绝望的小男孩的模样唤起了她的母性。

6 advisor   

n.顾问，指导老师，劝告者

参考例句：

• They employed me as an advisor.他们聘请我当顾问。
• The professor is engaged as a technical advisor.这位教授被聘请为技术顾问。

7 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。

8 epidemics   

n．流行病

参考例句：

• Reliance upon natural epidemics may be both time-consuming and misleading. 依靠天然的流行既浪费时间，又会引入歧途。
• The antibiotic epidemics usually start stop when the summer rainy season begins. 传染病通常会在夏天的雨季停止传播。

9 advisers   

顾问，劝告者( adviser的名词复数 )； （指导大学新生学科问题等的）指导教授

参考例句：

• a member of the President's favoured circle of advisers 总统宠爱的顾问班子中的一员
• She withdrew to confer with her advisers before announcing a decision. 她先去请教顾问然后再宣布决定。

10 infested   

adj.为患的，大批滋生的（常与with搭配）v.害虫、野兽大批出没于( infest的过去式和过去分词 )；遍布于

参考例句：

• The kitchen was infested with ants. 厨房里到处是蚂蚁。
• The apartments were infested with rats and roaches. 公寓里面到处都是老鼠和蟑螂。