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Aids today
艾滋病現(xiàn)狀
In an African village, eleven-year-old Ajani is bathing his younger sister. His fater is dead and his mother is sick.
在非洲的一個(gè)村莊，11歲的阿加尼在給妹妹洗澡。他的爸爸去世了，他的媽媽生病了。
He hopes that him mother will become healthy again, but this is not to be.
他希望他的媽媽能夠康復(fù)，但事實(shí)并不是這樣。
He hears an abrupt scream -- his mother has just died of Aids, the same disease that took his father.
他聽到一聲尖叫——他的媽媽剛剛死于艾滋病，他爸爸也死于相同的疾病。
He knows the meaning of the scream but -- too numb with sorrow to weep -- he gives a sideways glance, and then continues to bathe his sister. What will happen to them?
他知道這聲尖叫的含義——但他對(duì)悲傷太麻木了以至于都沒有哭泣——他只是向旁邊瞥了一眼，然后繼續(xù)給妹妹洗澡。他們將會(huì)遭遇什么呢？
Aids is caused by a virus called HIV.
艾滋病是由一種叫艾滋病病毒所引起的。
Sometimes, people with this deadly virus live for years with no outward sympotoms, so they do not know that they are carries.
有時(shí)，有這種知名病毒的人很多年都沒有任何外在的癥狀，因此他們不知道他們是病毒攜帶者。
When someone has Aids, the person loses the ability to fight other illnesses.
當(dāng)一些人感染艾滋病毒時(shí)，人們丟失了抵抗疾病的免疫力。
Eventually, the body's immune system becomes so weak that the person often becomes very ill from usually mild sickness. So far, there is no cure for Aids.
最終，人類的免疫系統(tǒng)變得相當(dāng)脆弱，被感染的人很容易因?yàn)槠匠］p微的疾病而生病。到目前位置，沒有治愈艾滋病的方法。
