Article: African Leaders Call for All-Level Efforts to Fight AIDS

African Leaders Call for All-Level Efforts to Fight AIDS

African leaders urged here Sunday that everyone should be mobilized through increased awareness and provide adequate capacity to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS that is claiming hundreds of thousands of lives in the world.

Addressing the 2nd African Development Forum (ADF) at the United Nations Conference Center, Secretary General Salim Ahmed Salim of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) said that the on-going forum is addressing a threat to the survival of human being.

"Apandemic such as HIV/AIDS is clearly a threat to the security of our nations.This is a major catastrophe confronting the people of Africa."

Salim said that the OAU ...

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