In the past few years, I have found that mental illness has been a term largely avoided in conversation, and this has a bad impact on those 【小题1】 depression, anxiety and other mental diseases. What’s worse, the topic of mental illness 【小题2】 when the news draws our attention to it, but then the conversation quiets until the next tragedy (悲剧) happens.

It’s time for the conversation to continue. Instead of waiting for the next tragedy, we need to be open about mental health and about the struggles that come with mental illness and treatment. We need to develop an environment where people feel comfortable to seek the help they need instead of concealing (掩盖) it.

It took a long time, but I am now open about my anxiety and depression. I am open about my taking medicine to treat my mental illness. I am open about the struggle of finding the 【小题3】 that works. I encourage everyone to do the same. Be 【小题4】 and open with your conversations about mental health. The more comfortable people are with these conversations, the easier it will be for the conversation to continue. A continued conversation will 【小题5】 more ideas on treatment and more ideas on how to 【小题6】 those who need it.

We have the ability to help those we love and break the shame around mental illness. We should change the idea that it’s something that needs to be cured people of. Mental illness can actually affect anyone, impacting one 【小题7】 every four people.

So,【小题8】, let’s keep the conversation about mental health and mental illness open. Be sure to check up on your friends, and be open about the importance of mental health. If you’re uncomfortable, share your story, which may let others know they are not 【小题9】. Just as Albus Dumbledo re said, “Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers 【小题10】 the light.”

Cure isn’t a word normally used in the 【小题1】 of AIDS. For most of the 35 years since HIV, the virus responsible for the disease, was first identified, doctors have viewed the notion of a cure as more 【小题2】 than fact.

That’s because HIV is a virus unlike any other. It disables the very immune cells that are 【小题3】 to destroy it, carrying out the ultimate deadly ambush（埋伏）whenever the guard of immune 【小题4】 comes down, months or sometimes even years later.

Yet for the first time in the HIV epidemic that 【小题5】 affects nearly 37 million people worldwide, some experts are starting to aim for a cure cautiously. The National Institutes of Health（NIH）is funding HIV cure efforts and advocacy groups like amfAR are also 【小题6】 resources into not just treating HIV, but also finding ways to eliminate it completely.

“Absolutely HIV can be cured,”says Rowena Johnston, vice president and director of research for amfAR.“The question is how.”

Doctors today have no trouble keeping HIV under control in people who are infected, thanks to antiretroviral（ARV）drugs, which stop the virus from replicating（复制）. If it is not making more copies of itself. HIV cannot spread to infect new cells. That can 【小题7】 into healthier, longer lives for people who are HIV-positive.

Powerful as the current drug treatments are, they can’t actually 【小题8】 the body of infected cells. For self-preservation, some HIV lies latent（潜伏性的）inside certain immune cells. These are the viruses that come coaring back when people stop taking their medications.

But the latest report this month revealed the strongest evidence that these latent viruses can be activated and eliminated, at least in animals. Dr. Dan Barouch and his colleagues showed that a drug that stimulates the immune system, 【小题9】 with a powerful antibody, prevented HIV from roaring back in five of 11 animals, six months after they stopped taking ARVs.“I think our data raises the 【小题10】 that an intervention achieving a functional cure is possible,”says Barouch.

Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious 【小题1】 disease that can easily spread from one person to another. It affects the 【小题2】 and is passed on through tiny drops of saliva released when someone coughs or sneezes.

Due to better understanding of the disease and how to treat it, it is now quite 【小题3】   in the developed world. Parts of the 【小题4】, such as some parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America experience higher rates of TB. In 【小题5】 with high rates of human immunodeficiency 【小题6】 (HIV), however, the incidence of TB is also quite high, as TB spreads quickly among people with weak immune systems. Other risky 【小题7】 for catching the disease include age (being very young or old), hunger and malnutrition and having serious illnesses such as cancer or diabetes. Living in poor or unhealthy conditions or working in hospitals and other health facilities also 【小题8】 a risk to people.

There are some vaccines that can be used in young children to prevent TB but they are not effective for adults. 【小题9】 and testing of other vaccines are ongoing.