2004年news broadcast 1-英语听力

[00:01.12]A new data shows that the global AIDS pandemic will cause a sharp drop in life expectancy in dozens of countries, [00:10.06]in some cases, declines of three decades. [00:13.79]Several nations are losing a century's progress in extending the length of life. [00:20.30]Nations in every part of the world, 51 in all, are suffering declining life expectancies [00:27.67]because of an increasing prevalence of HIV infection. [00:32.60]The increase is occurring in Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean, but is greatest in sub-Saharan Africa, [00:42.00]a region with only 10% of the world's population but 70% of the world's HIV infections. [00:50.93]Seven African countries have life expectancies of less than 40 years. [00:56.96]For example, in Botswana, where 39% of the adult population is infected with HIV, life expectancy is 39 years. [01:08.06]But by 2010, it will be less than 27 years. Without AIDS, it would have been 44 years. [01:17.24]Life expectancy throughout the Caribbean and some Central American nations will drop into the 60's by 2010, [01:25.05]when they would otherwise have been in the 70's without AIDS. [01:30.60]In Cambodia and Burma,they are predicted to decline to around 60 years old,to what otherwise would have been in the mid-60's. [01:40.81]Even in countries where the number of new infections is dropping, such as Thailand, Uganda, [01:47.62]and Senegal, small life expectancy drop is forecast. [01:53.21]Back in the early 1990's, we never would have suspected that population growth [02:00.15]would have turned negative because of AIDS mortality. [02:03.98]In less than 10 years, we expect that 5 countries will be experiencing negative population growth because of AIDS mortality, [02:12.74]including South Africa, Mozambique, Lesotho, Botswana and Swaziland.