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International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week of Action

INTERNATIONAL LEAD POISONING PREVENTION WEEK OF ACTION

Dr Maria Neira, WHO Director for Public Health and Environment

Ladies and gentlemen,

Today the World Health Organization marks for the first year[1] the International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week of Action with the theme “lead free kids for a healthy future”[2]. Our focus will be on the devastating[3] health consequences of lead on the human health and in particular on[4] our children. The campaign week runs 20-26 October with the aim to boost global awareness and to call on thousands of activities to take place and to urge countries to take further action to eliminate[6] lead paint.[5]

  1. Marks of the ：首次举办；
    this marks the 50th anniversary 今年是本院成立五十周年/今年，本院已成立了五十年
  2. 主题是：无铅童年，美好未来
  3. 严重性
  4. 写了in particular就用尤其是
  5. 本活动周在...举行，旨在提高...意识，呼吁举办..数千场活动，并敦促各国进一步采取行动，淘汰含铅涂料
  6. Eliminate：淘汰（不是消灭）

Lead exposure[1] accounts for 143,000 deaths per year with the highest burden[2] in developing regions. Childhood lead exposure is estimated to contribute to 600,000 new cases of children with intellectual disabilities every year.[3] Overall, 99% of children affected by high exposure to lead live in low and middle income countries.

  1. 铅暴露(?)铅接触。
  2. 最受影响的；
  3. 儿童时期接触铅估计会造成六十万儿童智力残疾，每年新增这么多;
    每年因为接触铅，六十万儿童智力残疾。
  4. 大量接触铅的儿童中，有99%是在中低收入国家

The toxicity of lead has been known for centuries.[1] It is only in the last few decades that the profound effects of even low-level exposure to lead on the development[2] of young children[3] and on the long-term health of adults has been recognised.recognized.

  1. 铅有毒，几百年前就知道了。
  2. 发育
  3. 幼儿（小小孩）
  4. 在近几十年才认识到

We now believe that there is no safe threshold of exposure to lead.lead. It is a problem that demands urgent action.action. At high levels of exposure, lead damages the brain and central nervous system to cause coma, convulsions and even death. Children who survive such poisoning are often left with intellectual impairment and behaviouralbehavioral disruption.[2]

  1. 我们曾经认
  2. 现在必须立即采取行动，解决这个问题
  3. 大量的铅
  4. 也往往会出现智商受损，行为紊乱

At lower levels of exposure, that cause no obvious symptoms and that previously were considered safe, lead is now known to produce a spectrum of injury across multiple body systems. In particular lead affects brain development in children, resulting in reduced IQ, behavioural changes such as shortening of attention span and increased antisocial behaviour, and reduced educational attainment.attainment. These effects are believed to be irreversible. Adults are at increased risk of kidney disease and raised blood pressure.

在增多的

  1. 增加的成就

  2. 反社会人格

  3. 更容易患高血压肾咋暗病，影响

  4. 程度的维度，不同种类的

The good news is that lead poisoning is entirely preventable through a range of measures to[1] restrict uses of lead and to monitor and manage[2] exposures. The phasing out of leaded gasoline has already reduced lead exposure at the population level.level[3]. Some important sources of lead still remain, however, and one of these is lead paint.

  1. 可以通过一系列措施
  2. 监控和管理；Manage: 控制/管理好
  3. 在总体层面上

We are calling on every country to ensure national actions to eliminate lead paint. In some of the countries where there have been public information campaigns about lead paint, several paint manufacturers have taken voluntary action to stop adding lead compounds to their decorative paints.

  1. 某些国家的一些油漆企业也很主动，不再向装饰性涂料中添加含铅化合物。

WHO is working to bolster efforts to eliminate lead paint. Globally about 30 countries have already phased out the use of lead paint. The Global Alliance to Eliminate Lead Paint, co-led by WHO and UNEP (联合国环境规划署), has set a goal to eliminate lead paint by 2020, with a target of 70 countries by 2015.[1] This can be done,done[2], and in doing so we are paving the way to protecting our health, our children and safeguarding our environment.[3]

  1. 2015年目标已有70个国家做到
  2. 我们可以做到/这一目标切实可行
  3. 奠定良好的基础帮助我们保护成人和儿童的健康，守护环境
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