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The First Pan-African Youth Leadership Summit held in Dakar, Senegal, from 27 to 30 June 2004 brought together more than 100 young leaders from African countries. During the Summit, African youth were signed on as MDG advocates, and a panel discussed the role of sport in efforts to achieve the goals. They committed themselves to full involvement in mobilizing their communities to halve poverty by 2015 and protect themselves and others from the spread of AIDS in order to help save the next generation from the scourge.
The Pan-African Youth Leadership Summit is part of the Africa 2015 initiative of UNDP, which was launched in 2003 to boost ongoing efforts and trigger new ones to achieve the Millennium Development Goals across Africa, using HIV/AIDS as an entry point. Initial components of Africa 2015 brought together cultural and sports leaders throughout the continent to partner with the United Nations in advancing the MDGs.
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