VOA慢速英语:Seeking HIV Tests for All in US Age 15-65

短语讲解：

1. People are less likely to progress to disease and also, as importantly, is people are less likely to transmit to others.

be likely to 可能
例句：This influence is likely to continue indefinitely unless we make a concerted effort to stop it. 
这种影响可能还会继续，除非我们一致协作来改变这种局面。 

2. So starting therapy early leads to better disease outcomes."

lead to 导致
例句：This may even lead to death.
这甚至可能导致死亡。

3. HIV is spread through uNPRotected sex or contact with an infected person's blood.

contact with 与…有交往[联系]
例句：You should keep in contact with him.
你应该与他保持联系。

4. He says that makes more sense than offering it later when people go to the doctor for tests to find out why they are sick.

find out 发现
例句：What'd you find out?
你有什么发现吗？

5. Up to twenty-five percent of all infected people do not know they have the virus.

Up to 直到
例句：Up to now he's been quiet.
他直到此刻仍保持沉默。

6. But UNAIDS researchers say the number of new cases has risen more than thirty-five percent in the Middle East and North Africa since two thousand one.

more than 多于
例句：She was no more than 16.
她是不超过16个。