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World leaders urged to strengthen AIDS fight

    JOHANNESBURG
    World leaders were called upon to step up the fight against HIV/AIDS at the recent opening of a major international HIV/AIDS conference in Kampala, Uganda. Some 800 delegates are currently gathered at the five-day 11th International Conference for People Living with HIV/AIDS, which kicked off on Sunday. During the opening ceremony, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni urged the world's governments to give the "HIV/AIDS epidemic the due political commitment it deserves". The Agence France Presse (AFP) news service quoted Museveni as saying: "Achieving a rolldown of the AIDS impact calls for strong political leadership, as lack of this has continued to be an impediment in the HIV/AIDS fight in many countries, especially in Africa." African nations were also urged to invest more in HIV/AIDS research, rather than to leave it to the outside world.

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