Unfortunately, at every step during the past decade – and still today – a chorus of aid skeptics has argued against the needed help. They have repeatedly claimed that aid does not work; that the funds will simply be wasted; that anti-malaria bed nets cannot be given to the poor, since the poor won’t use them; that the poor will not take anti-AIDS medicines properly; and so on and so forth.
不幸的是，在过去十年所采取的每一个步骤中（现在也不例外），总有一群援助怀疑者对必要的援助指手画脚。他们一再声称援助根本没什么效果；援助资金都打了水漂；抗疟疾床帐不能给穷人使用，因为他们根本不会去用；穷人不会正确服用抗艾滋药物；如此等等。他们的攻击是冷血的（包括对我的攻击）。