「乾爹」你好毒
Since the first AIDS cases were reported in 1981, HIV has continued to threaten the world, especially in sub-Saharan Africa.
自從1981年發現第一批愛滋病例後，愛滋病毒持續對全世界造成威脅，尤其是非洲撒哈拉以南地區。
case (n.)病例threat (n.)威脅；threaten (v.)威脅
In fact, two-thirds of HIV-infected people around the world are Africans.
事實上，全球感染愛滋病毒的人有三分之二是非洲人。
infect (v.)感染
African countries that are hit the hardest by the HIV pandemic include Nigeria, Kenya, Malawi, Botswana, and Zimbabwe, and more.
受到愛滋病毒衝擊最大的非洲國家包括奈及利亞、肯亞、馬拉威、波札那和辛巴威等等。
pandemic (n.)大流行病
However, South Africa has the highest HIV rate in Africa, with more than 7 million AIDS patients.
然而，南非共和國卻有非洲最高的愛滋病毒感染率，有超過700萬名愛滋病患。
rate (n.)率；inflation rate 通貨膨脹率；unemployment rate 失業率
A study by the South African government revealed that 28% of schoolgirls are HIV-positive.
南非政府的一項研究發現，28％的學齡女童確診愛滋。
study (n.)研究,調查reveal (v.)透露,揭露positive (adj.)陽性的；negative (adj.)陰性的
Given that the male infection rate is only 4% in the country, researchers speculate that the girls get AIDS from older men, the so-called “sugar daddies.”
由於國內男性感染率只有4％，研究人員猜測女孩是從年長男性感染愛滋，也就是俗稱的「乾爹」。
speculate (v.)猜測,臆測
There are many reasons behind the wide spread of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, including poverty, inadequate medical care, lack of prevention and education, and last but not least, taboos and stigmas attached to the disease.
愛滋病在非洲撒哈拉以南地區盛行的原因眾多，包括貧窮、醫療照護量能不足、缺乏預防措施和教育，以及圍繞該疾病的禁忌和刻板印象。
spread (n.)擴散,蔓延poverty (n.)貧窮adequate (adj.)足夠的；inadequate (adj.)不足的last but not least 最後但同等重要的taboo (n.)禁忌stigma (n.)汙名
People who are infected with AIDS tend to keep their illness secret—even before their sexual partners— for fear that they might be alienated in their society.
感染愛滋的人傾向保密自己的病情，即使對自己的性伴侶也一樣，因為他們害怕被社會邊緣化。
tend to 傾向,易於sexual (adj.)性的,性行為的；sexual harassment 性騷擾fear (n.)恐懼,害怕alienate (v.)疏遠