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| December 01, 2002 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

(From Agence France Presse)

South Africa commemorated World AIDS Day with a Johannesburg-based orphanage burying the ashes of 17 babies who died of AIDS-related illnesses and hundreds of activists marching through the city's streets.

"Today's ceremony highlights the plight of babies with AIDS, as well as AIDS orphans," said Sister Stella Dubazana, who led the somber burial service at a cemetery north of the city centre.

"These were babies who were orphaned by AIDS, or whose relatives have abandoned them because they had the disease," she told AFP on Sunday.

South Africa has one of the highest HIV infection rates in the world, with five…

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