英语泛读教程unit 12jsp.ppt

Unit 12 On the wrong side of the global divide生活在地球分界中错误的一边 Sarah Boseley Sarah Boseley is the Guardian’s Health editor. She has won a number of awards for her work on HIV/Aids in Africa. Guardian: top journal about health Share you knowledge about AIDS with us!! 1. what does AIDS mean? Acquired immune deficiency Syndrome 2. What is AIDS caused? A virus called HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) 3. What are people who have the HIV antibodies called? HIV-positive 4. Is being HIV-positive the same as having AIDS? No 5. How can we say that one gets AIDS? Get infected with HIV, later develop AIDS 6. How do people get AIDS? Having sex with an infected person Sharing a needle with Being born when the mother is infected, or drinking the breast milk of an infected mom 7. What might happen if one gets AIDS? Get fever, headache, sore muscles, and joints, stomach ache etc. 8. Is there a cure for AIDS? NO. 9. How can one protect himself and others? Sexual activity, drug use, vertical transmission, contact with blood, etc. The number of people living with HIV has risen from around 8 million in 1990 to more than 50 million today, and is still growing. Around 69% of people living with HIV are in sub-Saharan Africa. statistics More than 25 million people have died of AIDS since 1981. Africa has 12 million AIDS orphans. At the end of 2006, women accounted for 50% of all adults living with HIV worldwide, and for 61% in sub-Saharan Africa. Young people (under 25 years old) account for half of all new HIV infections worldwide. In developing and transitional countries, 7.1 million people are in immediate need of life-saving AIDS drugs; of these, only 2.015 million (28%) are receiving the drugs. Grace’s story Living condition: come off, red-baked, stony, Job: luxury, kiosk, exuberant, commercial hub, health condition: poison, infection, drugs, immune system, battered, diminished, flesh, wasted, engulf statistic Her thought: wished on curse, content, massive exacerbate, perman