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S Africa to expand Aids treatment

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/12/2009121115918772701.html

Jacob Zuma, the South African president, has said his government will roll out life-prolonging anti-retroviral drugs to "significantly more people" infected with Aids from next year.

* prolong = (공간을) 늘이다, 길게 하다(extend)

* retroviral [rètrəváiərəs]

  = RNA 종양 바이러스 (유전 정보의 부호화에 DNA 대신 RNA를 사용하는 바이러스)

* infect = 병독을 퍼뜨리다, 감염시키다

In a speech marking World Aids Day on Tuesday, Zuma compared the fight against Aids to the decades-long struggle against the apartheid government.

* struggle = 1 발버둥치다, 분투하다   2 발버둥질, 노력

* apartheid = (남아공) (흑인에 대한) 인종 차별[격리] 정책

Zuma said: "At another moment in our history, in another context, the liberation movement observed that the time comes in the life of any nation when there remain only two choices: submit or fight.

* context = 문맥, (문장의) 전후 관계,  (어떤 일의) 정황, 배경, 환경

* liberation = 1 해방, 석방, 해방 운동   2 유리(遊離)

"That time has now come in our struggle to overcome Aids. Let us declare now, as we declared then, that we shall not submit."

South Africa has the largest population of HIV-infected people in the world, and the previous government was heavily criticised for its passive efforts to fight the virus.

'No more shame'

"Let there be no more shame, no more blame, no more discrimination and no more stigma. Let the politicisation and endless debates about HIV and Aids stop," Zuma told a cheering crowd in Pretoria.

* stigma = 오명, 치욕, 오점

* politicisation = 정치화[政治化]

* Pretoria = 프레토리아 (남아프리카 공화국의 행정 수도,  입법상의 수도는 Cape Town)

The new strategy include anti-retroviral drugs to all children under one year if they test positive and expanded treatment for pregnant women with Aids.

Before his speech, Zuma won praise from the United Nations for his approach to fighting Aids.

Michel Sidibe, the head of the UN Aids programme, who was in South Africa to mark World Aids Day, said on Monday that Zuma was "committed to making change happen".

* commit = 범하다, 위탁하다

Zuma's plans received a further boost from the United States, which promised $120m to support South Africa's efforts to fight the virus in response to a request from Zuma's government.

* further = 1 더 멀리, 더 나아가서   2 더 먼, 그 이상의

* boost = 1 밀어올림   2 밀어 올리다  /  1 밀어올림  2 후원, 격려

Zuma's administration has set a target of providing 80 per cent of Aids patients with drugs by 2011.

But reports of shortages of Aids treatment drugs, known as ARVs, at some South African clinics have raised questions about whether the government has the money and the capacity for a massive rollout.

* massive = 크고 무거운, 큰 덩어리의

* rollout = (신형 비행기 등의) 첫 공개[전시]; (비행기의) 착륙 후 활주;

              [컴퓨터] 롤아웃 (내부 주기억 장치의 내용을 외부 보조 기억 장치로 옮기는 것)

Zuma did not give details of how the government would fund the increased rollout of drugs but said all health institutions in the country would be ready to receive and assist patients with treatment and testing facilities.

* assist = 거들다, 원조하다

Policy change

Zuma's policies mark a shift from those of Thabo Mbeki, his predecessor, and Mbeki's health minister, who promoted betroot and garlic treatments rather than distributing Aids drugs.

* predecessor = 1 전임자   2 선배

* betroot --> beetroot = 근대 뿌리

* distributing = 분배의, 배급의, 분포의 <distribute = 분배하다, 살포하다 >

In some ways, Zuma is an unlikely champion for Aids activists.

In 2006, while being tried on charges of raping an HIV-positive woman, he was ridiculed for testifying that he took a shower after sex to lower the risk of Aids.

* ridicule [rídikjùːl] = 비웃다, 조소[조롱]하다

* testify = 증명하다, 증언하다

He was acquitted of rape.

* acquit = 무죄로 하다, 해제하다

Al Jazeera's Haru Mutasa, reporting from Johannesburg, said Zuma's policies are revolutionary for the country.

* revolutionary = 혁명의, 혁명적인, 대변혁의, 대변혁[전환]을 가져오는

"Zuma will unveil a plan that will help his people live longer and target more HIV positive people on anti-retroviral drugs.

* unveil = 1 …의 베일을 벗기다 2 베일을 벗다, 덮개를 떼다

"Under the new conditions more people can get treatment earlier before they are too sick - this is a revolutionary turnaround from when Mbeki was president.

* turnaround = 1 전회, 선회, 180도 전환, 전향 2 U턴 지점, 반환 준비

"Zuma says the era of denying a link between HIV and aids is now in the past. The country wants to move forward and the aim now is to stop as many young people as possible from dying of the disease," she said.

* deny = 부인하다, 거절하다

* forward = 1 앞으로   2 앞쪽으로의  3 전송하다, 나아가게 하다

An estimated 5.7 million of South Africa's 50-million population are infected with HIV, the virus that causes Aids. Nearly 1,000 South Africans die every day of Aids-related diseases.

* estimate = 1 견적, 평가  2 평가하다 / 1 추정 평가  2 가치 판단(judgment, opinion)

A study from the US university of Harvard has concluded that more than 300,000 premature deaths in South Africa could have been prevented had officials here acted sooner to provide drug treatments to Aids patients and to prevent pregnant women with HIV from passing the virus to their children.

* conclude = 1 끝내다, 결론짓다   2 말을 맺다, 끝나다

* premature = 조숙한, 올된, 시기상조의, 조급한, 너무 이른, 때 아닌

About 33 million people worldwide are living with HIV/Aids and there are 2.7 million new cases each year.

<<Qusetions>>

1.      Check your understanding of the given content.

A.      Explicate the meaning of “submit or fight” in Zuma’s speech

B.      Reaction from U.N. Aids programme and U.S. after the speech

C.      Why “Zuma is an unlikely champion for Aids activitist?"

D.      Find facts regarding HIV/AIDS conditions in South Africa.

2.      How do people get infected with AIDS? (kissing, hugging, sex, holding hands, eating together, etc???) Share your knowledge about AIDS and teach each other a right one.

3.      Take a look at the part: “Zuma did not give details of how~~~ He was acquitted of rape.” Then, browse the overall article, reminding Zuma’s speech and declared action. A long dirty sentence rationally arose to me. A rapist President knowing little knowledge of AIDS waged a war against AIDS, but he had no detailed plan yet to execute only with prospective financial aid from outside of the country. Money without plan and morality! Hehehe. But the nation needs a change. Is he capable of making that change happen as the world expects? Stimulate people in your group by offering your insight with respect to familiar concepts: purpose and process, ideal and reality, and good deed and depraved mind, and so forth.

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