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On the past few days, two nations with large numbers of AIDS-infected people have announced plans to distribute a triple cocktai
On the past few days, two nations with large numbers of AIDS-infected people have announced plans to distribute a triple cocktai
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2010-07-06
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问题
On the past few days, two nations with large numbers of AIDS-infected people have announced plans to distribute a triple cocktail of life-prolonging antiretroviral drugs free to all who need it. China has been treating 5,000 patients and plans to expand the program to cover everyone in the country. South Africa’s cabinet approved a plan that includes drugs for all who need them.
China spent years denying it had an AIDS problem. Until recently, South Africa’s top officials minimized the epidemic, questioned whether H. I. V. was the cause of AIDS and labeled antiretroviral drugs "poisons". Both countries have now taken a courageous and essential step.
But only one is likely to succeed. Indeed, China’s program is already failing. One in five Chinese who have received antiretroviral drugs has already stopped taking them, which can lead to the creation of drug-resistant strains of the virus. China has only about 100 doctors nationwide with experience in treating AIDS. Health workers are simply handing patient’s bottles of pills. Most patients receive no counseling on how to take them or deal with their side effects, and little follow-up monitoring. China is also still determined to crack down on high-risk groups such as prostitutes and drug users, which drives the epidemic underground. Even recently, provincial police were beating AIDS patients protesting for treatment. Treating AIDS requires a network of health care workers and a political climate that does not stigmatize and discriminate against those who come forward.
South Africa’s government, by contrast, understands that handing out pills is only part of the solution. The program, which will cost about $ 680 million a year by 2007, will spend only a third of its budget on buying drugs. Much of the money will go instead to establishing clinics and training thousands of doctors, nurses, counselors and other workers to staff them. The government plans to have a well-run clinic in every district by the end of the year, and in every municipality by the end of 2008.
South Africa has an influential national network of campaigners for AIDS treatment whose pres- sure and advice were crucial to devising the plan, and who will be crucial to its success. It also had help from the foundation led by former President Bill Clinton, which negotiated better prices for AIDS medicine. China’s government, by contrast, made its decisions in secret and has yet to permit such widespread citizen activism on AIDS. But China has one huge advantage over South Africa: while one in nine South Africans has the AIDS virus, China’s epidemic is far smaller. Now that China has decided to treat AIDS, it has a chance to learn from other nations before the deluge.
The author write this passage mainly to______.
选项
A、bring up some facts about AIDS preventing and curing in the world.
B、urge Chinese government to do something about AIDS.
C、compare two countries in the AIDS-related work.
D、say something about the development in the AIDS preventing method.
答案
C
解析
本题是一个主旨题。要求考生在纵观全文的基础上,对作者的写作目的作出推断。
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