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Africa’s unhappy distinction of being the world’s epicentre of HIV, the infection causing AIDS, is being challenged by Asia, fro

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问题     Africa’s unhappy distinction of being the world’s epicentre of HIV, the infection causing AIDS, is being challenged by Asia, from where 40% of the disease’s growth is forecast to come over the next few years. Already in China, contaminated blood transfusions in some villages have claimed the lives of most young adults, leaving only children and their grandparents alive. In Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea(PNG), about 60% of hospital beds are now occupied by AIDS patients. Faced with predictions that AIDS could cost Asian and Pacific countries tens of billions of dollars a year by 2010, two initiatives involving co-operation between government, businesses and aid workers have been launched in Australia to try to stop its spread.
    The first is a partnership between the Australian government and the(Bill)Clinton Foundation, a global body set up four years ago by the former American president to fight AIDS. Australia will provide A $ 25m($ 18m)to work with the foundation in China, Vietnam and PNG, mainly to supply tests and anti-retroviral drugs. These are not necessarily the region’s three most afflicted countries: India, where 5m people live with HIV, has the most cases outside South Africa. But they do pose a risk of HIV spreading beyond their borders, especially from PNG, Australia’s closest neighbour and its former colony.
    Over the past decade, HIV has grown alarmingly in PNG to reach 50,000 estimated cases, about 2% of the adult population. Alexander Downer, Australia’s foreign minister, worries about HIV’s potential to become a "national catastrophe" there, possibly rising to 500, 000 cases by 2025. Unprotected sex has driven most of the spread in PNG. In China(500,000 estimated cases)and Vietnam(260,000 cases), contaminated blood transfusions, prostitution and intravenous drug use are the main avenues.
    The government-Clinton coalition will work with a second co-operative effort involving Australian companies that have operations in Asia. This has been formed through the Lowy Institute, a Sydney think-tank, which argues that AIDS, left unchecked, could prove another potential source of regional instability along with terrorism.
    Margaret Jackson, chairman of Qantas, Australia’ s biggest airline, who heads the business coalition, says having 8. 3m people infected with HIV in Asia and the Pacific threatens the economic life of Asia, especially that of China, Australia’s second-biggest export market. The outlook is grim: the number of sufferers is forecast to more than double to 20m by 2010—unless rich countries, like Australia, start exporting their own successful experience in curbing AIDS.
Australia on its own initiative helps its neighbors curb AIDS most probably because______.
选项 A、it is the richest among the countries in Asia and the Pacific
B、it is the only country with few AIDS cases in Asia and the Pacific
C、the economic life and regional stability might be threatened by unchecked AIDS
D、the number of AIDS patients is forecast to increase much faster
答案C
解析 根据第四段最后一句“…that AIDS，left unchecked，…regional instability along withterrorism”和第五段第一句“…having 8．3m people infected with HIV…threatens the economic lifeof Asia…”，C应为答案。
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