聯合國報告顯示 每3分鐘就有一位少女感染艾滋病毒

One girl between the ages of 15 and 19 is infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, every three minutes of every day, a United Nations report found.

聯合國的一份報告顯示，每天每三分鐘就有一位15到18歲的妙齡少女感染艾滋病病毒，而這一病毒將會引發艾滋病。

The report, released last Wednesday at the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam, said teenage girls are bearing the brunt of the AIDS epidemic, largely due to gender inequality.

於上週三在阿姆斯特丹舉行的國際艾滋病會議上發佈的這一份報告表明，妙齡少女正遭受着艾滋病蔓延的摧殘，很大一部分原因是性別不平等。

Henrietta Fore, head of the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF), called it a "crisis of health."

聯合國兒童基金會主席亨麗埃塔·福爾稱其爲一場“健康危機”。

"In most countries, women and girls lack access to information, to services, or even just power to say no to unsafe sex," she said. "HIV thrives among the most vulnerable and marginalized, leaving teenage girls at the center of the crisis."

她表示：“在絕大多數國家，女性缺乏獲得相關信息以及相關服務的渠道，她們甚至沒有對不安全的性行爲說不的權力。艾滋病病毒在最脆弱亦或者處於最邊緣的女性中日發猖獗，甚至使妙齡少女處於危機之中心。”

The report said while there was significant progress in the battle against AIDS in other age groups, it is notably lacking among adolescents.

該報告稱，儘管在其它年齡段防治艾滋病取得了重大進步，但在青少年這塊的防治成果仍舊並不太明顯。

While AIDS-related deaths among all other age groups have been falling since 2010, those among children aged 15 to 19 have seen no reduction.

自2010年以來，所有其它年齡段的團體中與艾滋病有關的死亡人數持續下跌，而在15到19歲的青少年之中，這一數字卻沒有下跌。

In 2017, 1.2 million 15- to 19-year-olds were living with HIV, three in five of them were girls, according to UNICEF.

據聯合國兒童基金會透露，僅2017年就有120萬15到19歲的青少年感染了艾滋病病毒，其中有3/5是女孩子。