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Youth call for G8 action on AIDS and education

    JOHANNESBURG

    Children from the Group of Eight (G8) industrialised nations this week urged greater action from their leaders to provide universal primary education and reduce maternal mortality and HIV/AIDS.

    In a written statement presented to British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the G8 summit, the youths known as the Junior-8 (J8) said AIDS education "must be delivered, honestly and openly, to everyone from the very young to the very old."

    The Associated Press quoted the J8 as saying: "We believe that the G8 nations must work in partnership with Africa ... [and] develop training programmes for education and health sectors to train teachers, doctors and administrators, to enable them to pass their knowledge and skills on to others."

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