Former South African president Nelson Mandela and his wife Graca Machel have been voted Decade Child Rights Heroes by 7.1 million children, the World's Children's Prize foundation said Friday. "The 7,136,222 voting children have elected Graca Machel and Nelson Mandela as their first Decade Child Heroes," the World's Children Prize for the Rights of ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - African leaders should be more serious about protecting the continent's children from AIDS and it is time for them to change state spending priorities, Nelson Mandela's wife Graca Machel said Thursday. "No matter how small our budgets, we must do something. We will not get there (HIV reduction) with African leaders who don't get moved ...

African leaders were urged Thursday to increase efforts to end HIV infections among children and women, in the world's worst affected continent. Speaking at the launch of the Campaign to End Pediatric HIV-AIDS, activist Graca Machel said that only two countries in Africa spent a target of 15 percent of their budgets on health. "You tell me next time ...