VOA慢速英语:New Effort to Fight 10 'Neglected' Tropical Diseases

call for需要; 要求
例句：The letter calls for an investigation of the facts.
来信要求对这些事实进行调查。

2. Just think of the prospect of freeing millions of people -- most of them are children and women -- so that they could have a healthy and productive life

think of想起, 记起; 想念
例句：You're very quiet; what are you thinking of?
你很沉默, 在想什么呢?

3. Tropical Diseases says those earlier efforts were not very effective because access to drugs was limited.

access to有权使用；到某地的通道
例句：Students need easy access to books.
学生需要得到借书的便利。

4. It’s only through now with the raised awareness and increased commitments from the drug companies, as well as foundations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the U.S. and the U.K. government, that we can actually take the response to NTDs to scale, which means that we can treat more communities and more people that would get rid of the parasite and avoid reinfection.

get rid of除掉, 去掉；摆脱
例句：He can't get rid of the cold.
他的感冒老是好不了。

5. The thirteen drug companies have agreed to share information that could speed up the development of new treatments.

agree to同意, 赞成, 同意照办
例句：He agreed to our sending Jack to Hong Kong.
他赞成我们把杰克派往香港。
speed up (使)加速
例句：We are speeding up the mechanization of our agriculture.
我们正在加快农业机械化的步伐。