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Read the passage quickly and answer these questions.

1. What is this news special about?

It gives some detailed information about Aids and how to fight the spread of Aids.

2. How many people around the world are infected with HIV every day?

About 14, 000 people.

3. What places have been affected by Aids?

Almost every country in the world has been affected by Aids.

Read the passage again and complete Part C1.

Detailed reading

1. What does Aids stand for?

Aids stands for acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

2. How many children have been affected by Aids so far?

About 18 million children have been affected by Aids, among whom more than 4 million have been killed by Aids and more than 14 million have lost their parents to Aids and become orphans.

3. How does HIV affect the body?HIV is a virus that enters a person’s blood and attacks the body’s immune system, so the immune system is weakened, and then it gradually loses the ability to fight illnesses. Eventually the body’s immune system becomes so weak that the person becomes sick very easily.

4. What are the three ways Aids is transmitted?

The three ways are unprotected sex, blood-to-blood contact and mother-to-child transmission.

5. What is being done in China to help control the Aids epidemic?

China is working hard to control the epidemic, and has opened HIV/Aids labs to test and monitor the disease across the country. In 2003, the government started providing free Aids drugs for Aids patients in need.

6. What is the aim of UNAIDS?

The aim of UNAIDS is to help prevent the spread of Aids.

7. What does UNAIDS do for people who think they might have the virus?It provides infected people with help from doctors and testing for people who think they might have HIV or Aids.

8. Why did Ajani not catch the virus form his mother?

Because his mother had access to prescription Aids medications during pregnancy.

Match each item below with the correct number. Write the correct letters in brackets.

What do you think about incurable

diseases and prejudice against

people with certain diseases?