2014年12月四级听力训练之世界艾滋病日_大学英语听力

2014年12月四级听力训练之世界艾滋病日

　　Health officials, she says, foresee a time when the effort to prevent mother-to-child transmission will have succeeded and the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV will be eliminated.

　　In order to do that, it requires a concerted effort from multiple parties and partners. And very specifically, ministries of health in countries have really gotten behind the message that this is possible for their populations and have invested in making PMTCT a priority for their health programs, Guay says.

　　Theres also been a great deal of international support from PEPFAR the Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and UNAIDS, among others.

　　But following the global economic crisis, funding isnt as free flowing as it once was.

　　Dr. Guay says, I think its a challenge for all of us to figure out how to do what were doing more effectively with a more cost-effective system, to evaluate models of service delivery. Look at ways we can improve the efficiencies of our programs. To look at making sure that these are done in a way that we can get the most effect out of the limited resources we have possible.

　　She says before these programs were available, many women had lost hope of having a child that was not infected with HIV and feared that they, too, would succumb to the disease.

　　Yet, we see then that these women are able to get supportive services. Theyre having HIV negative children. And those women are then becoming the spokespersons for both the ministry, the facilities and in their community, saying that, you know, this is what can happen if you access the services, she says.