2013年高中英语教学辅助素材：Cameroon-Winning-Battle-to-Reduce-Malaria（文本）.docVIP

YAOUNDE, Cameroon ?It抯 a Monday morning at the Yaounde central hospital, and one of the busiest days of the week for the doctors and nurses who work here. Hundreds of sick people wait for their turn in one of the consultation rooms. For many, their fate is known in advance. One in four will be diagnosed with malaria. Malaria is a leading cause of death in hospital visits - in the country. Victims are mostly children and pregnant women. Everyone in Cameroon is considered at risk. Last year, the disease inflicted more than 1.8 million people. Sunny and humid, most of Cameroon is a breeding ground for anopheles mosquitoes that transmit the malaria parasite. The country抯 20 million people are now on the frontline of the war on malaria in Africa. Dr. Esther Tallah is the manager of the Cameroon Coalition against Malaria and a major player in the struggle against the disease. She says the war is being won by expanding effective prevention and treatment. Once you invest in the right things that we know work for malaria prevention and control, you see results immediately, she said, The world has shown and repeatedly proven that when [people] adopt the habit of sleeping under mosquito nets and that you achieve universal coverage you see a drop in the incidence of malaria. If the country decides that they want to do indoor residual spraying, and they do it effectively, she continued, you see a drop in the incidence of malaria. In some cases, countries decide to combine indoor residual spraying and sleeping under long-lasting insecticidal mosquito nets. The government and NGOs like Tallah抯 coalition distributed more than eight million long-lasting insecticidal nets nationwide. The government has also scaled up affordable treatment using a combination of anti-malaria drugs including artemisinin. Together, they attack the reproductive cycle of the malaria parasite, thereby curing and reducing transmission at the same time. As part of the push to end malaria, patients pay