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[00:00.00]和谐英语学习网 Unit 7 Living with disease
[00:05.69]Reading  BORN DYING
[00:11.15]Xiaohua is 12 and lives in a province in South China.
[00:17.92]She is a happy girl who smiles a lot
[00:22.47]and likes to talk to her friends after school.
[00:27.43]People who see Xiaohua
[00:30.88]would never guess that she is one of millions of children in the world
[00:36.34]living and dying with AIDS.
[00:40.31]AIDS is a disease that breaks down the body's immune system
[00:46.26]and leaves a person defenceless against infections and illnesses.
[00:52.79]Most people who have AIDS
[00:56.42]manage to survive only a few years after they get the disease.
[01:02.07]For some,medicine can help keep them alive,
[01:07.32]but the treatment is expensive and does not cure them.
[01:12.75]People get AIDS after having been infected with HIV.
[01:19.10]HIV spreads through blood and other body liquids.
[01:24.98]People transmit HIV by having uNPRotected sex,
[01:30.62]by receiving infected blood transfusions or,as in Xiaohua's case,through birth.
[01:38.80]Xiaohua's mother contracted HIV when she was 28,
[01:45.04]and she died of AIDS only three years after Xiaohua was born.
[01:51.28]Xiao Hua's mother did not know that she had AIDS until Xiaohua was born.
[01:57.84]Xiao Hua's father,who also has AIDS,
[02:02.70]takes care of her,but Xiaohua misses her mother.
[02:08.34]"I wish I could remember more about my mum," Xiaohua says,
[02:14.87]"I wish that she were here with me and that we weren't sick."
[02:20.83]Thousands of children become infected with HIV every day.
[02:27.20]In 2002, 800,000 children under 15 became infected;
[02:35.45]the total number of infected children in the world was 3.2 million.
[02:42.82]The disease is spreading fast in Africa and parts of Asia,
[02:48.67]mainly because of a lack of proper health care,prevention and education.
[02:56.12]As with most diseases and disasters, the young suffer the most.
[03:03.38]For children like Xiaohua there is little hope.
[03:08.11]The drugs that are available are much too expensive.
[03:13.88]Xiaohua knows that she will die before she has a chance to grow old,
[03:20.96]but she does not let that knowledge discourage her.
[03:25.69]Instead,she has decided to use the limited time she has left
[03:31.54]to do something to help others.
[03:35.69]She spends much of her time telling others about her disease
[03:41.05]and encouraging people to learn how to protect themselves.
[03:47.00]She also goes to visit other AIDS patients in hospitals across the country
[03:53.67]to support them and cheer them up.
[03:57.92]"If I were to live long enough to have a job,
[04:02.05]I would choose to be a doctor,helping these AIDS patients,"Xiaohua says.
[04:10.38]The disease is not the only thing that AIDS patients suffer from.
[04:17.15]They also have to deal with people's fear of the disease.
[04:23.18]Many people do not know very much about AIDS
[04:28.62]and are afraid that any contact with people who have AIDS is dangerous.
[04:35.88]Xiaohua is trying to change this by creating a network of patients and doctors
[04:43.82]that can persuade hospitals and companies
[04:49.28]to spend more money on AIDS research and education.
[04:55.52]"I wish people would find out the facts,"she says,
[05:01.90]"and not act as if I were a bad or dangerous person."
[05:07.96]When she talks to people about her disease,
[05:13.00]she and Dr Wang,an AIDS specialist who helps Xiaohua,
[05:19.76]often tell people that the most dangerous thing
[05:25.04]is not knowing about the disease.
[05:29.69]They explain how AIDS spreads
[05:33.74]and let people know that it is safe to shake hands,
[05:39.02]talk,and eat with someone who has AIDS.
[05:44.27]People often ask what they can do to help.
[05:49.23]"If I were you,"Xiaohua says,"I would give an AIDS patient a hug.
[05:56.68]That is the best way to show that you care
[06:01.53]and that we don't have to feel lonely."
[06:05.61]Xiaohua has learnt to live with HIV
[06:10.65]and the fact that she will one day develop AIDS.
[06:15.61]She knows that her life will not be as long as her classmates',