Leadership and Social Mobilisation on HIV/AIDS in Africa: Address by by Mrs. Graça Machel at the ADF 2000
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Address by Mrs. Graça Machel at the ADF 2000 at the Leadership and Social Mobilization on HIV/AIDS in Africa. Mrs. Machel, on her remarks pointed that, this is a conference on HIV/AIDS and leadership. It is a great credit to the conference organisers that we see so many different kinds of leaders gathered together here. Moreover, as leaders, each of you has important, if sometimes different roles to play. As a former Minister of Education, I want to start with the responsibility of governments. As governments, we cannot allow resources to be an excuse to sit back and watch our people die. We must remember continually that each one of the statistics that we have heard has a name, has a family, is someone’s daughter, son, sister, brother. Young people are key. They are the group that are being infected at the greatest rates. They are the key to prevention and often shoulder the greatest burden of care. They are the group that inherits this catastrophe. Yet we continue to marginalize them, not recognizing their strengths and not building on their potential. This conference is a huge opportunity. Let us use it to its full advantage and make sure that it does not become another ‘talking shop’, but that our people can look back and say that the ADF 2000 was a turning point in the struggle against AIDS in Africa.
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“Machel, Graça; United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa. (2000-12). Leadership and Social Mobilisation on HIV/AIDS in Africa: Address by by Mrs. Graça Machel at the ADF 2000. UN. ECA African Development Forum 2000 (2000, Dec. 3-7 : Addis Abeba, Ethiopie). Addis Ababa:. © UN. ECA,. https://hdl.handle.net/10855/31377”Conference
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