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Annan Calls for War on AIDS and Focus on Girls' Education to Fix Africa's Problems

From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

September 17, 2002

Secretary-General Kofi Annan called for a war on AIDS and the promotion of girls' education as the UN focused Monday on what one African leader called extricating "Africa out of her long night of misery." Launching the debate, Annan proposed stronger work on a "new partnership" to help Africa from slipping into an irretrievable abyss. "Combating HIV/AIDS and promoting girls' education are particularly central," Annan said. "The HIV/AIDS pandemic has become the greatest threat to Africa's development." HIV/AIDS "has exacerbated the problems of poverty, discrimination, malnutrition and sexual exploitation of girls and women," Annan said.

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Adapted from:
Associated Press
09.16.02; Ranjan Roy

  
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