国务卿克林顿（Hillary Rodham Clinton）呼吁全世界与她共同为实现这一目标而努力

12月1日是世界艾滋病日（World AIDS Day），美国正在为实现无艾滋病时代而努力。

无艾滋病时代意味着全世界儿童出生时不会携带艾滋病毒；他们成长为年轻人后感染艾滋病的危险将继续大大低于今天的儿童；如果有人确实感染上这种病毒，他/她将获得遏制艾滋病发展的治疗，防止把病毒传给他人。

国务卿希拉里·克林顿（Hillary Rodham Clinton）认为，实现无艾滋病时代的目标可分为以上三个部分，她呼吁全世界与她共同为实现这一目标而努力。

国务卿克林顿认为，成功的关键在于全球共同努力防止母亲向婴儿传播艾滋病毒；鼓励男性自愿做包皮环切医疗手术，减少艾滋病毒向性伴侣传播的机会；在更广泛的范围内提供抗逆转录病毒治疗。

图为脸上涂着油彩的南非儿童纪念去年的世界艾滋病日。

An AIDS-free generation would mean no children would be born with HIV and they would have easy access to treatment if they acquired the virus.

December 1 is World AIDS Day, and the United States is working to achieve an AIDS-free generation.

An AIDS-free generation would mean that no children in the world would be born with HIV; that as children become young adults, they would remain at a far lower risk of becoming infected than children today; and if a person did acquire the virus, he or she would get treatment to prevent the development of AIDS or passing the virus to others.

Breaking down the goal into these three parts offers a path to an AIDS-free generation, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton believes, and she has called on the world to join her in working toward the goal.

Clinton believes success lies in a global effort to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV; to encourage voluntary medical male circumcision, which would reduce the transmission of HIV to sexual partners; and to make anti-retroviral treatments more widely available.

The South African children here, representing the next generation, celebrated an earlier World AIDS Day by having their faces painted.