Aids today
艾滋病现状
In an African village, eleven-year-old Ajani is bathing his younger sister. His fater is dead and his mother is sick.
在非洲的一个村庄，11岁的阿加尼在给妹妹洗澡。他的爸爸去世了，他的妈妈生病了。
He hopes that him mother will become healthy again, but this is not to be.
他希望他的妈妈能够康复，但事实并不是这样。
He hears an abrupt scream -- his mother has just died of Aids, the same disease that took his father.
他听到一声尖叫——他的妈妈刚刚死于艾滋病，他爸爸也死于相同的疾病。
He knows the meaning of the scream but -- too numb with sorrow to weep -- he gives a sideways glance, and then continues to bathe his sister. What will happen to them?
他知道这声尖叫的含义——但他对悲伤太麻木了以至于都没有哭泣——他只是向旁边瞥了一眼，然后继续给妹妹洗澡。他们将会遭遇什么呢？
Aids is caused by a virus called HIV.
艾滋病是由一种叫艾滋病病毒所引起的。
Sometimes, people with this deadly virus live for years with no outward sympotoms, so they do not know that they are carries.
有时，有这种知名病毒的人很多年都没有任何外在的症状，因此他们不知道他们是病毒携带者。
When someone has Aids, the person loses the ability to fight other illnesses.
当一些人感染艾滋病毒时，人们丢失了抵抗疾病的免疫力。
Eventually, the body's immune system becomes so weak that the person often becomes very ill from usually mild sickness. So far, there is no cure for Aids.
最终，人类的免疫系统变得相当脆弱，被感染的人很容易因为平常轻微的疾病而生病。到目前位置，没有治愈艾滋病的方法。