HPV - 英语听力.mp3

[00:00.687]From VOA Learning English,
[00:02.975]this is the Health Report.
[00:05.733]Zambia has one of the highest rates of cervical cancer in the world,
[00:12.955]90 of every 100,000 Zambian women get the preventable disease.
[00:20.719]The Zambian government recently launched a program to vaccinate school girls
[00:27.361]against the Human Papilloma Virus - HPV.
[00:32.724]The virus is known to cause cervical cancer.
[00:37.379]HPV can spread through sexual contact.
[00:42.360]The government hopes to vaccinate school girls
[00:45.671]between the ages of 9 - 11 against HPV.
[00:51.361]The program was launched in May at several schools.
[00:55.750]One of them is the Kalingalinga Primary School in Lusaka,
[01:03.219]about 100 students there received the HPV vaccine.
[01:09.271]Euphrasia Mweshi Mutale is a teacher,
[01:13.301]she was involved in efforts to inform the community
[01:17.403]about what was expected to be a sensitive subject.
[01:22.006]Miss Mutale is happy with the earlier results.
[01:25.645]She says people involved in the program
[01:28.985]met with parents and teachers to tell them
[01:33.040]why it is good to vaccinate the girls.
[01:36.993]She knows there have been no immediate reported side effects from the vaccine,
[01:43.506]like high body temperature or skin discoloration.
[01:48.457]Mulindi Mwanahamuntu is the director of the Cervical Cancer Prevention Program in Zambia.
[01:57.143]He says health officials want to vaccinate 25,000 girls as part of the program,
[02:06.112]but he says there was some resistance from churches and other groups.
[02:13.554]"The very fact that it is given to the pre- sexual years
[02:18.476]it would indicate to others that we are permitting children
[02:24.046]therefore to go out and have sex.
[02:29.118]Zambian and international health officials are working to break the resistance
[02:31.464]by educating communities in different ways.
[02:40.064]Dr. Pelum-Hazeley is with the United Nations.
[02:45.170]She starts in a local radio program called Celebrating Life.
[02:52.027]Her program aims to educate listeners on medical issues,
[02:58.258]so they can make the right decisions for their children.
[03:03.426]"We just have to continue educating the people
[03:06.287]because if someone has had a complication,
[03:10.761]and of course there are reasons why there are complications.
[03:12.799]It does not necessarily mean the same thing is going to happen here."
[03:16.259]The World Health Organization rates Zambia third
[03:21.215]on its list of highest death rates from cervical cancer.
[03:25.982]The country also has the highest cervical cancer rate in Africa.
[03:32.733]And that's the Health Report from VOA Learning English.