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Nkosi Johnson receives posthumous award
25 November 2005. IRIN PlusNews. Republished courtesy of IRIN PlusNews.
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South African child HIV/AIDS activist Nkosi Johnson, was on Thursday honoured with a posthumous international children's peace prize by the KidsRights Foundation, a children's rights advocacy group, in Rome, Italy.
"The Prize was posthumously dedicated to Nkosi Johnson, who fought so courageously and effectively for the rights of children living with HIV/AIDS," the group said in a statement.
Nkosi, who died from an HIV/AIDS-related illness at age 12, made his mark when he personally got the South African government to draw up a policy forcing schools to open their classrooms to HIV-positive children.
It is estimated that more than 2 million children under the age of 15 are living with the HI virus globally, 85 percent of them living in sub-Saharan Africa.
This item is delivered to the English Service of the United Nations Humanitarian Information Unit but, may not necessarily reflect the views of the UN. |
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