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Mandela.

- This web page is dedicated to retired president Nelson Mandela of South Africa.
- Retired President Mandela is well known world-wide for his struggle against appatheid in Southern Africa.
- He is highly respected and honoured internationally for his belief in Peace and Reconciliation.
- He also stands for "human rights" and "justice for all". To many people in Africa, the name "Mandela", means "Freedom."

- Nelson Mandela is a symbol of "Peace and Bridge between Europe and Africa".
- Indeed, both continents should respect each other, and also work together for world peace and development.
- Mandela has used his talents to help the world around him.
His advocacy for the eradication of Aids, through the elimination of the HIV virus, is a symbol of his contribution towards world health.

Nelson Mandela.
Below is an article written by Darren Schuettler in Bangkok July 16, 2004. Conference on AIDS held in Bangkok and Mandela's contribution: .
" Tuberculosis crucial in war on AIDS, says Mandela
The war on AIDS could be lost if the world ignored tuberculosis, often a "death sentence" for those infected with HIV, the former South African president Nelson Mandela said yesterday.

"The world has made defeating AIDS its top priority. This is a blessing, but TB remains ignored," the frail Nobel Peace Prize winner and AIDS campaigner told reporters at a global conference in Bangkok.

HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, destroys the immune system and makes patients more vulnerable to diseases such as TB, an infectious respiratory illness that accounts for up to one third of all HIV/AIDS deaths worldwide.

About 14 million people are infected with HIV and TB, 70 per cent of them in sub-Saharan Africa. HIV/AIDS has killed 20 million people worldwide.

"We cannot win the battle against AIDS if we do not also fight TB. TB is too often a death sentence for people with AIDS. It does not have to be this way," Mr Mandela said.

Mr Mandela, who was jailed for 27 years for fighting apartheid before leading South Africa to democracy in 1994, described his own battle against TB in prison.

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" I went to my friends in prison, Walter Sisulu and others, and told them I was found to have TB. There were long faces drawn," he said.

He urged the world to intensify the fight against TB, which kills about 2 million people a year.

At the 15th international AIDS conference - the biggest gathering of scientists, activists, drug company bosses and AIDS sufferers - Washington has come under fire for its AIDS policies. On Wednesday

the US fought back, insisting it was leading the fight.
But it rejected a plea from the United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, to inject $US1 billion ($1.38 billion) a year into a global AIDS fund.

" It's not going to happen," said the US global AIDS co-ordinator, Randall Tobias. "The President has requested $200 million for next year, and I think that is more than adequate to meet the requirements of the Global Fund in terms of getting money out for putting programs in place."

Controversy about US payments to the public-private Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, created in 2002 as the idea of Mr Annan and needing more than $US3 billion for 2005, has overshadowed this week's talks at the AIDS summit attended by 17,000 people.

Earlier in the day about 50 protesters chanting "Bush lies, millions die" delayed Mr Tobias's speech to the conference, in which he robustly defended President George Bush's AIDS policies.

"This year America is spending nearly twice as much to fight global AIDS as the rest of the world's donor governments combined," Mr Tobias said.

Room existed for different approaches to fighting AIDS, he said, denying that the US's decision to introduce its own program and its support for sexual abstinence as a pillar of policy was undermining a unified strategy.

"Preventing AIDS is not a multiple-choice test," he said. "Abstinence works; being faithful works; condoms work. Each has its place."

Research into the tuberculosis and AIDS epidemic received a boost yesterday with a $US45 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The philanthropic organisation set up by the Microsoft chairman said the money would fund studies of strategies to control TB in areas with high HIV rates."

By Reuters.
Source: Internet research

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