就谈谈爱滋病毒。

Twinkling Star · 週日 12月 02, 2007 2:57 am

近几年，抗病毒的药物应用减慢了 HIV 携带者发展成为艾滋病的过程。
In recent years, the use of antiretroviral therapy has slowed the progression of HIV in many infected persons and hence contributed to a decline in AIDS incidence.

在全球范围内, 有三千五百万人传染上了爱滋病毒。其中，两千五百万人生活在 sub-saharah Afraic。至今，一千七百万人已经被爱滋病毒夺取了生命。一千七百万非洲人从百分比看相当与七百万美国人。但更重要的是，我们应该认识到，这些被爱滋病毒夺取生命的是一千七百万生活在非洲的受害者。
There are more than 35 million people with the AIDS virus worldwide. Twenty-five million of them live in sub-Saharan Africa. Seventeen million have already died. Seventeen million Africans is proportional percentage-wise to seven million Americans. More importantly, it is seventeen million Africans.

现在还没有能有效治愈爱滋病的药品，但却有能减缓病毒对感染者身体破坏的药品。这些对抗病毒的治疗（方法）还处在实验阶段，但他们已经有非常明显的治疗效果。在美国，常规性进行鸡尾酒治疗已经能延长爱滋病感染者的寿命达十到二十年。对于一些人，这种治疗已经几乎彻底抑制了病毒的侵害。
There is no cure for AIDS, but there are drugs to slow its progression. These antiretroviral therapies are still experimental, but they have already had a dramatic effect. In the United States, AIDS patients who regularly take a cocktail of these drugs increase their life expectancy by ten to twenty years. For some, the drugs make the disease almost invisible.