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US health chief calls on large firms to join assault on AIDS in Africa.

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| December 03, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Ltd. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

(From Agence France Presse)

US Secretary for Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson called on large companies to join the assault on AIDS in Africa at the launch of Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS (GBC-HIV/AIDS).

Speaking in the Kenyan capital, Thompson said the partnership, which has incorporated about 120 companies worldwide, was set up by former US envoy to the UN Richard Holbrooke at the request of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to boost the war against HIV/AIDS.

"This is a partnership that we have not done enough to incorporate the business community, we need everybody to join with us in this fight, a fight and a war that we cannot …

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