Aids to kill 'one in two Africans' 艾滋病將使“一半非洲人”喪生

The UN is cutting life expectancy rates in Africa

非洲人壽命減短

The Aids virus will kill half of all young adults in Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe, according to a shocking new report by the United Nations.

It says that the virus is wreaking social and economic havoc on the worst affected nations.

In the Central African Republic there has been widespread closure of schools because so many teachers have died of an Aids-related illness.

The UN says that $4bn is needed annually to contain the epidemic, which it says has claimed 19 million lives.

The report also warns against complacency in wealthy countries where it says there are continuing high levels of infection among young homosexual men and drug addicts.

聯合國一份最新的報告爆出驚人消息：艾滋病病毒將使博茨瓦納、南非和津巴布韋的一半年輕人喪生。

報告說，在感染最嚴重的國家，艾滋病病毒正在造成一場社會和經濟大災難。

在中非共和國，因許多老師死于與艾滋病有關的疾病，各地都有學校關門。

聯合國說每年需要花40億美元控制這一已使1900萬人喪生的病災。

報告同時警告說富裕國家并非安枕無憂，在這些國家年輕的同性戀和吸毒者中間艾滋病感染程度一直很高。