Slowly, HIV is being beaten
慢慢地，艾滋病毒正在被消灭
On the principle that no news is good news, the fact that AIDS has dropped out of the headlines is surely a good thing. Nevertheless, it does no harm for the world to be reminded from time to time that the llness has not gone away. To that end, UNAIDS and the World Health Organisation promote December 1st as World AIDS Day.
没有消息就是好消息，根据这条原则，艾滋病从头条新闻中消失，无疑是一件好事。然而，时不时地提醒人们，这种疾病没有被消灭，对世界而言也并无害处。为此，联合国艾滋病规划署和世界卫生组织将12月1日定为世界艾滋病日。
This year is the last before the target date for the success of the latest of the agencies' campaigns to roll out the antiretroviral drugs. This particular campaign is called 90-90-90. lts aims are that, by 2020, 90% of all those around the world who are infected will know they are infected; 90% of that group will be receiving sustained antiretroviral therapy; and 90% of those receiving therapy will have had the virus effectively suppressed.
这两大机构发起了一系列运动，来投放抗逆转录病毒药物，而完成这一-系列活动中最新的项目的目标日期就在明年。这场运动叫做“90-90-90”，其目标是:到2020年，全世界有90%的(艾滋病毒)感染者被确诊;这其中，90%的患者会持续接受抗逆转录病毒的治疗;接受治疗的群体中，90% 的患者体内的艾滋病毒将得到有效抑制。
As the chart shows, doing this by 2020 is unlikely.Whether that is seen as a failure, though, depends on your point of view. Had the target been reached easily it would surely have been criticised as unambitious.
如图表所示，到2020年完成这一目标的可能性不大。不过，这个结果是否算失败，取决于你看待这个结果的角度。如果这个目标被轻而易举地达成了，它肯定会被批评为“毫无挑战性”。
Regardless of when 90-90-90 is achieved the next aim, 95-95-95, is already pencilled in for 2030. The exact meaning of that phrase is unclear. But in principle eliminating HIV is possible with existing technology. The slogans for this are "zero new HIV infections", "zero AIDS-related deaths" and "zero discrimination".
不论“90-90-90”何时能够实现，在2030年完成“95-95-95”项目已经被暂定为下一个目标。这个目标名称的意义尚不明确，但原则上来说，利用现有的科学技术来消灭艾滋病毒是有可能实现的。这一口号是“零艾滋病毒新发感染”、“ 零艾滋病相关疾病死亡”和“零歧视’
However, there is no vaccine against HIV. If this state of affairs continues, eliminating the virus will mean giving drugs to all those infected until they have died of other causes. It will also mean someone paying for those drugs. Exterminating HIV, then, will be a huge undertaking and an expensive one. But not, with luck, an impossible one.
然而，目前还没有抗艾滋病毒的疫苗。如果这种情况持续下去，消灭病毒将意味着向所有感染者提供药物，直到他们死于其他原因。这也意味着有人要为这些(抗逆转录病毒)药物买单。如此一来，消灭艾滋病毒将是-项艰巨且昂贵的任务。但是，运气好的话，这不是不可能完成的。
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