2007年VOA标准英语-Bush Highlights Africa Health Initiatives in Sp

By VOA News
24 January 2007
 
watch speech excerpt¹ on African Health

Dikembe Mutombo during the president's State of the Union address

President Bush highlighted U.S. health initiatives in Africa during his State of the Union speech late Tuesday.

The president said the U.S. must continue the fight against AIDS, especially in Africa. He thanked Congress for funding the U.S. Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, saying it has supplied life-saving drugs to more than 800,000 people in three years.

Sub-Saharan Africa has become the center of the AIDS epidemic², accounting³ for two-thirds of all people infected with HIV at the end of 2006. Mr. Bush also asked Congress to provide $1.2 billion in funding for a malaria⁴ initiative aimed at 15 African countries.

The White House said Tuesday that so far, the program has delivered aid to about six million people in Angola, Uganda, and Tanzania. It said 30 million more will receive aid that includes medicine, sprays, and bed nets in 2007.

Among the guests at the president's speech was professional basketball player Dikembe Mutombo of the Houston Rockets, who has funded a new hospital in Kinshasa, the capital of his native Congo.

1 excerpt   

n.摘录，选录，节录

参考例句：

• This is an excerpt from a novel.这是一部小说的摘录。
• Can you excerpt something from the newspaper? 你能从报纸上选录些东西吗？

2 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。

3 accounting   

n.会计，会计学，借贷对照表

参考例句：

• A job fell vacant in the accounting department.财会部出现了一个空缺。
• There's an accounting error in this entry.这笔账目里有差错。

4 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。