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Opposition Demands Immediate Release of Ivory Coast Election Results反对派的要求象牙海岸即时发布选举结果Former prime minister Alassane Ouattara said it is imperative the electoral commission immediately declare the results of this vote. He said the delay worries voters who have been waiting nearly three days.前总理阿拉萨内瓦塔拉表示，选举委员会必须立即宣布这次投票的结果。

他说延迟使一直等待了近三天选民担忧。

By law, the electoral commission has until Midnight to announce a winner. The results have been delayed, however, by supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo, who are insisting that the commission annul results from northern regions where they say the Ouattara campaign engaged in electoral fraud.Electoral commissioner Damana Adia Pickass is from the Gbagbo campaign. He said announcing those results would amount to an electoral coup d'etat, and Gbagbo supporters should stay calm as the president's allies work to publish only credible results.French President Nicolas Sarkozy and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon joined Mr. Ouattara in calling for the electoral commission to meet its Wednesday deadline for announcing a winner.Ivorian soldiers stand guard at the entrance to electoral commission headquarters in Abidjan, 01 Dec 2010Ouattara campaign director Marcel Amon Tanoh said President Gbagbo's interference with the work of the electoral commission shows he knows he has been beaten. He said if Laurent Gbagbo knew he was going to win, he would not have prevented the electoral commission from announcing results on state-run television. Tanoh said doing so shows that the president knows he has lost.Observers from the U.S.-based Carter Center say there were serious electoral crimes during Sunday's vote, including the destruction of election materials and voter intimidation, as well as the theft of ballot boxes. They say it is not yet clear, though, if those irregularities will affect the overall credibility of the vote.Carter Center Peace Programs Vice President John Stremlau says it is now up to Mr. Gbagbo and Mr. Ouattara to conclude this electoral process peacefully. "They must show the statesmanship and civility and commitment to the broader national interests they demonstrated in their debate last Thursday evening. And leaders must take responsibility for the actions of their supporters and reign in any tendency toward violence that could undermine the enormous progress made so far."Days before this vote, Gbagbo imposed an overnight curfew that was to have expired early Thursday. That curfew has been extended through Sunday.World AIDS Day: Saving Mothers, Saving Babies世界艾滋病日：拯救母亲，拯救婴儿The recent UNAIDS global report cited significant progress in preventing mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV. It says there have been fewer infections and fewer deaths among women and their newborns. One organization has played a major role in that success.最近联合国艾滋病规划署全球报告中表彰了在全球防止母亲传染给子女（防止母婴传播）艾滋病毒方面取得重大进展。

很少有人感染，而且新生儿死亡人数也减少。

一个组织在这方面的成功发挥重要作用。

The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation currently operates 5,000 sites in 17 countries. That’s up from a mere e ight locations 10 years ago, when it started its international program.Still a long way to goDr. Laura Guay (Gay), the foundation’s vice-president of research, says, “We’re very happy to see the new report that we’ve made significant progress in the last five years with the scale-up of services for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission globally. Whereas in 2004, only about 10 percent of pregnant women had access and were receiving antiretroviral drugs to protect their baby from HIV, in 2009 that number has gone up to 53 percent. “Elizabeth Glaser pediatric AIDS FoundationMother, nurse and baby in PMTCT programBut Guay says thousands more pregnant women still need access to HIV prevention services.“We still have a long way to go. Forty-seven percent of women still do not have access. So, while we celebrate the progress that’s been made in the last five years, we look forward to accelerated progress in the next few years so that we can reach the remaining women,” she says.With a lot of effort, it can be doneHealth officials, she says, foresee a time when the effort to prevent mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) will have succeeded and the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV will be eliminated.“In order to do that, it requires a conc erted effort from multiple parties and partners. And very specifically, ministries of health in countries have really gotten behind the message that this is possible for their populations and have invested in making PMTCT a priority for their health progra ms,” Guay says.There’s also been a great deal of international support from PEPFAR –the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief – the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and UNAIDS, among others.But following the global economic crisi s, funding isn’t as free flowing as it once was.Dr. Guay says, “I think it’s a challenge for all of us to figure out how to do what we’re doing more effectively with a more cost-effective system, to evaluate models of service delivery. Look at ways we can improve the efficiencies of our programs. To look at making sure that these are done in a way that we can get the most effect out of the limited resources we have possible.”She says before these programs were available, many women had lost hope of having a child that was not infected with HIV and feared that they, too, would succumb to the disease.“Yet, we see then that these women are able to get supportive services. They’re having HIV negative children. And those women are then becoming the spokespersons for both the (health) ministry, the facilities and in their community, saying that, you know, this is what can happen if you access the services,” she says.The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation supported programs account for 25 percent of the services available worldwide to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV.。