Category: Development Report (发展报道)

I’m Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Development Report. Recycling makes things like paper or glass or metal useful again.It means the resources that went into making them were…

I’m Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Development Report. Aid officials are working to help the youngest victims of theDecember twenty-sixth earthquake and tsunami waves in the IndianOcean. The…

I’m Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Development Report. People have always had to find ways to keep food safe to eat.Methods to dry, smoke and salt food were…

This is Robert Cohen with the VOA Special English DevelopmentReport. Malaria is estimated to kill another child in Africa every thirtyseconds. But there is new evidence that treatment of malaria…

This is Robert Cohen with the VOA Special English DevelopmentReport. The United States has announced a new drug approval process forAIDS medicines for developing countries. Health and Human ServicesSecretary Tommy…

This is Robert Cohen with the VOA Special English DevelopmentReport. The United Nations has decided to support a traditional Chinesemedicine as a way to fight malaria. The drug is called…

This is Robert Cohen with the VOA Special English DevelopmentReport. Women trained to help with childbirth celebrated InternationalDay of the Midwife last week. The observance takes place each yearon May…

This is Robert Cohen with the VOA Special English DevelopmentReport. Fifty years ago, no one knew how to stop polio. Polio is adisease of the muscles and the nervous system.…

This is Robert Cohen with the VOA Special English DevelopmentReport. Four years ago, the World HealthOrganization and other groups began a campaign to end lymphaticfilariasis. This disease is a leading…

This is Robert Cohen with the VOA Special English DevelopmentReport. The United States Food and DrugAdministration has approved a new test for H.I.V., the virus thatcauses AIDS. Experts say it…

This is Robert Cohen with the VOA Special English DevelopmentReport. Malaria is a very serious diseasethat kills more children under the age of five than any otherdisease. People get malaria…

This is Robert Cohen with the VOA Special English DevelopmentReport. Reports from western Afghanistan say at least fifty young womenhave killed themselves in recent months. In each case, they setthemselves…

This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English DevelopmentReport. A man and a woman are considered infertile if they cannot producea pregnancy after twelve months of trying. For centuries,…

This is Robert Cohen with the VOA Special English DevelopmentReport. More than three-million people died of AIDS last year. Theestimate is that five-million others became infected with H.I.V.,the virus that…

This is Robert Cohen with the VOA Special English DevelopmentReport. American officials estimate that at least 800,000 people a yearare brought across borders, into slavery. But they admit thisestimate is…