About 11,000 delegates from 178 nations attended the 13th International Conference on AIDS that started on 9/July. It was the first time the conference was being held in a developing country or in Africa.

　　約有11000名來自178個(gè)國家的代表出席了在7月9日召開的第十三屆世界愛滋病大會(huì)。這是世界上第一次在發(fā)展中國家或者說是非洲舉行這樣的會(huì)議。

　　The following are key facts and figures about the disease that has killed 18.8 million people since the beginning of the epidemic.

　　下面是關(guān)于這種自被發(fā)現(xiàn)以來至今已經(jīng)奪去1880萬人生命的病癥的基本情況及數(shù)據(jù)統(tǒng)計(jì)資料。

　　AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) was first reported in 1981 among homosexual men in the United States. The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS was identified by 1983.

　　愛滋�。ǐ@得性免疫功能喪失綜合癥）首次于1981年在美國一名同性戀男性身體上被發(fā)現(xiàn)。導(dǎo)致愛滋病的人體免疫缺損病毒（HIV）于1983年被鑒定出來。

　　AIDS is the fourth leading global cause of death, according to UNAIDS. At the end of 1999, 34.3 million adults and children worldwide were living with HIV/AIDS. More than five million people are newly infected each year.

　　根據(jù)非愛滋病死亡統(tǒng)計(jì)，愛滋病在全球致命疾病中排名第四位。至1999年年底，世界上共有3430萬的成年人和兒童被感染有愛滋病病毒/或患愛滋病。每年新增感染愛滋病的人數(shù)達(dá)5百萬人之多。

　　24.5 million people are living with the disease in sub-Saharan Africa, 5.6 million in South/Southeast Asia, 1.3 million in Latin America, 900,000 in North America and 520,000 in Western Europe.

　　在非洲南撒哈拉沙漠地區(qū)，有2450萬人患有愛滋病，南亞和東南亞地區(qū)有560萬人患病，拉美地區(qū)有130萬人患病，北美有90萬人患病，在西歐有52萬人患病。

　　Worldwide, 54 percent of people with the HIV virus are men but women are contracting it at a faster rate. In Africa, 20 percent more women than men are living with HIV.

　　世界范圍內(nèi)愛滋病毒攜帶者中54%為男性而女性的感染速度卻更加快。在非洲地區(qū)女性愛滋病毒攜帶者較男性多20%。

　　There are now 16 countries in which more than one-tenth of the adult population aged 15-49 is infected with HIV. In seven countries, all in the southern part of the African continent, at least one adult in five is living with the virus.

　　16個(gè)國家中年齡范圍在15-49的人口中有1/10的成年人被感染了愛滋病毒。位于南部非洲大陸的7個(gè)國家中，每5個(gè)人中至少有1個(gè)攜帶愛滋病毒。

　　So far, the AIDS epidemic has left behind 13.2 million orphans - children 15 years old or younger who have lost one or both parents to the disease.

　　直至目前愛滋病已使1320萬兒童成為孤兒----15歲或15歲以下的兒童的父母一方或雙方死于愛滋病。

　　At least one of every two 15-year-old boys in Kenya, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana is on track to die of AIDS.

　　在肯尼亞、津巴布韋和博茨瓦納15歲的男孩每兩個(gè)人中就有一個(gè)將會(huì)死于愛滋病。

　　With a total of 4.2 million infected people, South Africa has the largest number of people living with HIV/AIDS in the world.

　　南非愛滋病感染的人數(shù)達(dá)到420萬是世界上攜帶愛滋病毒/患愛滋病人數(shù)最多的國家。

　　In Botswana, 35.8 percent of adults are now infected with HIV.

　　在博茨瓦納有35.8%的成年人現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)被感染了愛滋病毒。

　　AIDS is a syndrome, a combination of illnesses. The HIV virus attacks the immune system and leaves the body vulnerable to a variety of life-threatening diseases, so-called opportunistic infections, such as tuberculosis.

　　愛滋病是一種綜合病癥，愛滋病毒侵害了人體的免疫系統(tǒng)使得人體無法抵御許多危急生命的疾病故稱機(jī)會(huì)感染，比如肺結(jié)核

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