F2F Class Notes (Nemo) [R]

Vocabulary

dehydrated (adj): 1-not having the normal amount of water in your body so that you feel ill or weak
E.g.: The patient was severely dehydrated and needed fluids urgently.

severely (adj): 1-very seriously:
E.g.: Their daughter was severely injured in a car accident.
E.g.: severely disabled/handicapped

fluid (n): 1-a substance that flows and is not solid:
E.g.: If you have a fever you should drink plenty of fluids.
E.g.: The virus is contracted through exchange of bodily fluids (= liquids, such as blood, that come from the human body).

gum (n): 1- either of the two areas of firm pink flesh inside the mouth that cover the bones into which the teeth are fixed:
E.g.: sore gums

proliferate (v): 1to increase a lot and suddenly in number:
E.g.: Small businesses have proliferated in the last ten years.

stigma (n): 1- a strong feeling of disapproval that most people in a society have about something, especially when this is unfair:
E.g.: There is no longer any stigma to being divorced.
E.g.: Being an unmarried mother no longer carries the social stigma that it used to.

stigmatize (v):1 -to treat someone or something unfairly by disapproving of him, her, or it:
E.g.: People should not be stigmatized on the basis of race.
E.g.: Anybody standing in line can see when they pay with Food Stamps, and it stigmatizes them.

quadruple (v): 1-to become four times as big, or to multiply a number or amount by four:
E.g.: The number of students at the college has quadrupled in the last ten years.
E.g.: We expect to quadruple our profits this year.

On Taobao, China’s top e-commerce site, rapid test kits for HIV sell for less than US$8 each.
The top selling test kit, which has monthly sales of about 20,000 units, tests blood and fluid from the cheeks and gums.
“I was extremely nervous until I tested negative,” said an anonymous user. “I secretly bought this. If it was not about AIDS, I wouldn’t have to hide anything.”
The proliferation of these kits points to China’s key focus in its fight against HIV/AIDS — testing.
In the past decade, the number of people in China tested for HIV/AIDS each year had nearly quadrupled, said experts. But it remains a challenge to reach the estimated 200,000 to 400,000 people who are unaware that they have HIV.
The number of HIV test takers reached 169 million last year, and it continued to grow, said Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC).
“It means one in every three people taking the HIV test in the world has it done in China,” he said ahead of the World AIDS Day tomorrow.
In 2008, 45 million people in China took the test, said Wu.
The number of people who took the test has been rising steadily as China builds an extensive network for HIV tests. Most people take the test before having major surgery, blood donation, or pregnancy.
The current testing rate — more than 12 percent of China’s population — was considered the highest volume in the world, Wu said.