Byline: Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Former President Nelson Mandela announced Thursday that his eldest son died of AIDS-related complications, saying the only way to fight the disease's stigma was to speak openly about it.
Makgatho Mandela, who had been the former president's only surviving son, was admitted to Linksfield Park Clinic last month. He died Thursday at age 54.
"Let us give publicity to HIV/AIDS and not hide it, because the only way of making it appear to be a normal illness, just like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of HIV," Mandela said at a news conference at his residence. …
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