'Fight Aids like apartheid'
'Fight Aids like apartheid': "Johannesburg - The fight against HIV/Aids needed the same strength as the fight against apartheid, US Civil Rights leader Jesse Jackson said in Johannesburg on Tuesday.
'Its needs the same kind of thrust we had to end apartheid,' he said at a visit to the SA Council of Churches headquarters, Khotso House.
He had those attending a sermon repeating after him: 'We must assault Aids and stop Aids from assaulting us.'
He said more efforts were needed, particularly in education preventing the further spread of the disease.
He said sub-Saharan Africa had the highest percentage of Aids victims in the world and this needed to change.
'We can fight aids by changing our minds and by changing our behaviour.'
He said that in the US many women who are partners of former prisoners are among those contracting the disease.
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'Its needs the same kind of thrust we had to end apartheid,' he said at a visit to the SA Council of Churches headquarters, Khotso House.
He had those attending a sermon repeating after him: 'We must assault Aids and stop Aids from assaulting us.'
He said more efforts were needed, particularly in education preventing the further spread of the disease.
He said sub-Saharan Africa had the highest percentage of Aids victims in the world and this needed to change.
'We can fight aids by changing our minds and by changing our behaviour.'
He said that in the US many women who are partners of former prisoners are among those contracting the disease.
"
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