Kaunda Hails Mogae

Speaking at the closing ceremony of the Champions for an AIDS-Free Generation workshop last week in Gaborone, Kaunda said that prior to the meeting, Mogae had convened a conference of dignitaries in Mexico. In the Mexico meeting, Kaunda said Mogae worked to set the tone of the concept paper under which was discussed in Gaborone last week. "The deliberations were not easy, but the champions rose to the challenge," he said.

Some of the champions are Justice Edwin Cameron, a South African human rights advocate, Professor Marriam Were, a medical doctor, Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, ex-presidents Joaquim Chissano (Mozambique) and Benjamin Mkapa (Tanzania). Kaunda thanked the champions for their role in working out the concept paper that entails how they will chart the way forward in the AIDS fight. In their two days meet, they refined their mission and priorities, he said.