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Mandela, Gates appeal to South African youth to fight AIDS

By DINA KRAFT

Associated Press Writer

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) _ The nation’s hero, former President Nelson Mandela, flanked by the world’s richest man, Bill Gates, called on South Africa’s youth to fight AIDS as previous generations battled apartheid.

The two, along with their wives, made a joint appeal Monday to South African youth to fight AIDS, the disease that is spreading most quickly among the country’s young.

``The fight against AIDS will indeed require another social revolution,’’ Mandela told a gathering of university students he hosted along with Gates. ``Once more the youth of our country are called upon to play a leading role in a social revolution as they did so heroically in the revolutionary struggle against apartheid.’’

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