After 30 years of AIDS prevention efforts, global leaders may now need to change

After 30 years of AIDS prevention efforts, global leaders may now need to change their focus to spending more on drugs used to treat the disease as new data shows this is also the best way to prevent the virus from spreading.

The UN mainly took up the issue at the International AIDS Society meeting in Rome as it evaluated progress in fighting the disease. Guiding the meeting was completely new data that showed early treatment of HIV can cut its transmission to a sexual partner by 96 percent.

"Now it is very clear that treatment is prevention and treatment is an important part of a combination strategy (策略),Now that we know this ,is this going to be enough encouragement to change around our policy?” Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said

That could mean redirecting, or adding to, global spending on fighting AIDS, particularly how much is spent on education or other researches into antiretroviral drugs (抗逆转录病毒 药物）that allow patients to live with the controlled disease for many years.

UNAIDS says at least $ 22 billion will be needed to fight with the disease by 2015, helping reduce 12 million new infections and 7. 4 million more deaths in the next decade.

Globally, the number of people living with HIV rose to 34 million by the end of 2010, from 33. 3 million a year earlier. But in poorer countries, a majority of such patients were not receiving antiretroviral treatment.

Fauci said he had already discussed this with policymakers and may make public his views . on needed policy changes at the meeting. "I don't think it's going to be one-size-fits-all Fauci said of the policy approach. "There is going to be certainly a difference between how things are looked at in the developing world and the developed world. ”

Facing the situation, UNAlDS Executive Director Sidibe also said, “As a patient with HIV, if you're lucky to be born in the North, you will not die from HIV. We need to have drugs which are not just for the rich market. ”

72. What has AIDS fight focused more on over the past 30 years?

A. Prevention B. Test of drugs.

C. Development of drugs.　 D. Treatment of the disease.

73. The International AIDS Society meeting in Rome was under the guidance of______ .

A. progress in AIDS fight

B. AIDS prevention strategies

C. researches into antiretroviral drugs

D. new data about early treatment of HIV

74. The underlined word “transmission” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to “______ ”.

A. concern B. spread C. limit D. challenge

75. What can we infer from the text?

A. So far no effective AIDS drugs have been developed

B. Most AIDS patients can't receive treatment worldwide.

C. There exists inequality when it comes to AIDS treatment.

D. The spread of AIDS has been brought under control in the North.

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