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Article: African Leaders Call for All-Level Efforts to Fight AIDS
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- December 3, 2000
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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 ...