DON’T PUT all your eggs in one basket(把全部希望寄托在一件事上). That was the lesson learned by the world’s AIDS establishment(机构；当权派) on January 20th 2025. Since 2011 America’s share of foreign aid aimed at combating(抗击；与……斗争) the epidemic had risen from 58% to 81%. So when Donald Trump changed the rules of engagement, the result was a chaos of shuttered clinics, shattered drug-supply chains and suddenly resourceless support groups.(因此，当唐纳德·特朗普改变参与规则时，结果是诊所关闭、药品供应链破碎、支持团体突然失去资源的混乱局面。)
不要把所有鸡蛋放在一个篮子里。这是2025年1月20日全球艾滋病防治机构学到的教训。自2011年以来，美国在抗击这一流行病的对外援助中所占份额已从58%升至81%。因此，当唐纳德·特朗普改变参与规则时，结果是诊所关闭、药品供应链破碎、支持团体突然失去资源的混乱局面。
The dust has now settled(尘埃落定；局势已明朗). The task ahead is for activists, bureaucrats(官僚；官员), doctors, politicians and researchers to make the best of(充分利用；尽力而为) the new reality. They have tools: in particular, a pipeline(管道；供应线；在研产品线) of promising drugs. They have a clear steer(指导；引导；建议) from America’s government about how it sees the future. And they also have some early but intriguing(引人入胜的；有趣的) results from scientists looking beyond prevention and treatment towards the El Dorado(黄金国；理想中的宝地) of an actual cure.
尘埃现已落定。面前的任务是让活动人士、官僚、医生、政治家和研究人员充分利用新现实。他们拥有工具：特别是前景看好的药物管线。他们从美国政府那里得到了关于其未来看法的明确指引。而且他们还从科学家那里获得了一些早期但引人入胜的成果，这些科学家将目光投向预防和治疗之外，追寻真正治愈方法的"黄金国"。
To that end(为此；为了那个目的) the establishment’s bigwigs(要人；大人物) met at the end of July in Rio de Janeiro, for the 26th International AIDS Conference, a biennial(两年一次的) pow-wow(聚会；会议（非正式）). The choice of venue was apt(恰当的；合适的). Brazil has, right from the epidemic’s beginning, been an exemplar(典范；榜样) of how to deal with AIDS. It has provided free access to antiretroviral(抗逆转录病毒的) (ARV) drugs and forced licensing for the local manufacture of those drugs. Brazil can afford this. For many less-well-provided countries, particularly in Africa, necessity is going to have to be the mother of invention(需要是发明之母).
为此，该机构的要员们于7月底在里约热内卢举行了第26届国际艾滋病大会，这是一次两年一度的聚会。会场的选择很恰当。巴西从疫情一开始就一直是应对艾滋病的典范。它提供了免费的抗逆转录病毒（ARV）药物，并强制许可当地生产这些药物。巴西负担得起。对于许多资源较少的国家，尤其是非洲国家，必要性将不得不成为发明之母。