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Get your act together, guys 伙计们，请一起行动 Two UN reports on AIDS are coming out this month. That is one too many 本月联合国将发布了两份关于艾滋病的报告，其中一份实在多余 SOMETHING odd is going on in the international AIDS establishment. December 1st hasbeen designated to be World AIDS Day . That is a signal for theUnited Nations to put out a report on the state of the epidemic. This year, though, there areto be two reports. 国际艾滋病机构发生了件奇怪的事情：每年12月1日被认定为 国际艾滋病日 。联合国也会在每年这个时候发布一份有关艾滋病状况的报告。然而今年会有两份这样的报告。 On November 21st UNAIDS, an agency created in 1996 to deal specifically with the then-newish disease, published its assessment of the situation. This reaffirmed what has becomeclear recently: that the epidemic is being beaten back by the widespread deployment ofdrugs, in combination with changes in the behaviour of those most at risk. The annualnumber of deaths has fallen to 1.8m, from its peak of 2.2m in 2005. New infections have alsofallen, from a peak of 3.2m in 1997 to 2.7m last year. The report went on to outline what itcalls an investment framework, designed to deal with the epidemic in the most cost-effective way. This builds on an analysis published in the Lancet in June by BernhardSchwartl?nder, UNAIDS s director of evidence, strategy and results. It attempts toprescribe, for each part of the world, the mixture of drug treatment, condom-promotion,prophylactic circumcision and so on that will bring most benefit to the fight. | 
