Child Death-英语听力

[00:00.10]From VOA Learning English, [00:02.82]this is the Health Report. [00:05.32]The United Nations Children's Fund [00:08.44]is praising Ethiopia for reaching one of [00:12.15]the Millennium Development Goals on child survival. [00:16.36]UNICEF officials say Ethiopia has reduced [00:21.18]its number of child death by more than two-thirds. [00:25.89]Between 1990 and 2012, [00:30.15]the country reported a 67 percent drop [00:34.18]in the number of children dying [00:36.68]before the age of five. [00:38.84]Ethiopia's Minister of Health Kesetebirhan Admasu [00:44.07]welcomed the good news, [00:46.22]but he admitted that even with the improvement [00:50.03]Ethiopia is considered a high-mortality country. [00:54.20]"If you look at the absolute number of children dying in Ethiopia, [01:00.26]it is still huge. [01:02.92]We have committed to end all preventive child deaths [01:10.59]in a generation by 2035. [01:13.30]And we have developed a roadmap to reach that ambitious target." [01:20.26]Diarrhea, pneumonia and malaria are the leading causes of death [01:26.22]among young children in Ethiopia. [01:28.73]In 1990, the country's death rate for children under five [01:34.55]was one of the highest in the world, [01:37.86]it was 204 death for every 1,000 births. [01:44.23]The rate is now at 68 per 1,000, [01:49.70]this means that hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian children [01:54.50]who might have died in earlier years [01:57.61]now reach their fifth birthday. [02:00.68]Ethiopia is one of four African countries [02:05.58]to have reached a Millennium Development Goal, [02:08.84]the other three are Liberia, Malawi and Tanzania. [02:14.51]One of the reasons for Ethiopia's success [02:18.86]is its Health Extension Program, [02:22.01]because of it, [02:23.76]38,000 people were employed to bring health care services [02:29.24]to a large part of the rural population. [02:33.19]Peter Salama is UNICEF representative to Ethiopia. [02:38.65]He says Ethiopia's plan of action [02:41.67]can serve as an example for other countries: [02:45.57]"Several other African countries have come to do study tours, [02:48.98]including delegations from Togo, Guinea, Namibia [02:53.65]- all came to study the health extension program [02:57.02]and see how they can replicate this critical lesson of [03:00.13]bringing health care to the doorstep of the rural population." [03:03.26]The United Nations first announced [03:06.37]the Millennium Development Goals 13 years ago, [03:09.99]the goals remain to help countries pay more attention [03:14.36]to issues such as fighting extreme poverty. [03:17.86]Progress on the Millennium Development Goal of [03:21.58]reducing child death is slow in most countries, [03:25.64]only 13 of 61 countries are in a position to meet the goal. [03:31.95]And that's the Health Report from VOA Learning English.