Polio

Song Polio
Artist 英语听力
Album VOA慢速英语：健康报道

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[00:00.10] From VOA Learning English,
[00:02.46] this is the Health Report.
[00:05.97] Researchers have appealed for new efforts
[00:10.02] to stop polio in countries
[00:13.36] where the disease never seems to disappear.
[00:18.09] They say stronger health systems
[00:21.19] and greater community involvement are needed
[00:24.99] in three such countries
[00:26.99] – Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
[00:32.41] All three have faced attacks by militants,
[00:36.66] political unrest and a lack of trust among the populations.
[00:43.21] The researchers made them appear
[00:46.54] in the publication PLOS Medicine.
[00:50.13] Seye Abimbola works for Nigeria's
[00:54.28] National Primary Health Care Development Agency.
[00:59.09] He says it's time to move away from what has been called
[01:04.68] a leader-centric approach to polio eradication.
[01:10.45] Such a methodology plays more importance
[01:15.10] on leadership than shared responsibility.
[01:20.16] Dr. Abimbola says parents often have reasonable concerns
[01:27.01] about the safety of vaccines.
[01:30.91] He says some families may have lost one or two children
[01:37.07] to diseases like pneumonia, malaria, and diarrhea.
[01:43.11] A mother he says may wonder what the government
[01:48.19] is doing about sicknesses other than polio.
[01:52.13] Dr. Abimbola says polio immunization
[01:57.30] should be part of a larger health
[02:00.30] and development intervention program.
[02:03.69] He writes, "the ambition of the global health community
[02:09.30] to eradicate polio appears to be blinding it
[02:15.66] to lessons learned about health systems over the past 30 years."
[02:22.49] He says it is now more important than ever
[02:26.95] to deal with people who distrust polio prevention
[02:32.59] as human beings with real concerns, not as an opponent.
[02:39.64] Further, he says it is important to somehow
[02:44.09] show militant groups that health interventions are necessary.
[02:50.65] For example, aid agencies say there have been cases
[02:56.00] when even the Taliban in Afghanistan
[02:59.94] has supported immunization campaigns against polio.
[03:05.88] Seye Abimbola says the Afghan Taliban approves of action against polio,
[03:14.97] because the group thinks of itself
[03:18.41] as waiting to take control of the government.
[03:22.40] In his words, when a militant group
[03:25.81] wants the trust of the people,
[03:28.47] they go at it by trying to do what the people want.
[03:35.03] The doctor sees the support of the Taliban
[03:38.83] as its way of seeking to gain legitimacy,
[03:44.18] trying to seem responsible and worthy of governing.
[03:50.23] And that's the Health Report from VOA Learning English.
[03:54.68] I'm Milagros Ardin.

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[00:00.10] From VOA Learning English,
[00:02.46] this is the Health Report.
[00:05.97] Researchers have appealed for new efforts
[00:10.02] to stop polio in countries
[00:13.36] where the disease never seems to disappear.
[00:18.09] They say stronger health systems
[00:21.19] and greater community involvement are needed
[00:24.99] in three such countries
[00:26.99] Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
[00:32.41] All three have faced attacks by militants,
[00:36.66] political unrest and a lack of trust among the populations.
[00:43.21] The researchers made them appear
[00:46.54] in the publication PLOS Medicine.
[00:50.13] Seye Abimbola works for Nigeria' s
[00:54.28] National Primary Health Care Development Agency.
[00:59.09] He says it' s time to move away from what has been called
[01:04.68] a leadercentric approach to polio eradication.
[01:10.45] Such a methodology plays more importance
[01:15.10] on leadership than shared responsibility.
[01:20.16] Dr. Abimbola says parents often have reasonable concerns
[01:27.01] about the safety of vaccines.
[01:30.91] He says some families may have lost one or two children
[01:37.07] to diseases like pneumonia, malaria, and diarrhea.
[01:43.11] A mother he says may wonder what the government
[01:48.19] is doing about sicknesses other than polio.
[01:52.13] Dr. Abimbola says polio immunization
[01:57.30] should be part of a larger health
[02:00.30] and development intervention program.
[02:03.69] He writes, " the ambition of the global health community
[02:09.30] to eradicate polio appears to be blinding it
[02:15.66] to lessons learned about health systems over the past 30 years."
[02:22.49] He says it is now more important than ever
[02:26.95] to deal with people who distrust polio prevention
[02:32.59] as human beings with real concerns, not as an opponent.
[02:39.64] Further, he says it is important to somehow
[02:44.09] show militant groups that health interventions are necessary.
[02:50.65] For example, aid agencies say there have been cases
[02:56.00] when even the Taliban in Afghanistan
[02:59.94] has supported immunization campaigns against polio.
[03:05.88] Seye Abimbola says the Afghan Taliban approves of action against polio,
[03:14.97] because the group thinks of itself
[03:18.41] as waiting to take control of the government.
[03:22.40] In his words, when a militant group
[03:25.81] wants the trust of the people,
[03:28.47] they go at it by trying to do what the people want.
[03:35.03] The doctor sees the support of the Taliban
[03:38.83] as its way of seeking to gain legitimacy,
[03:44.18] trying to seem responsible and worthy of governing.
[03:50.23] And that' s the Health Report from VOA Learning English.
[03:54.68] I' m Milagros Ardin.