'Drugs - not bombs - please Mr Bush'

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Aids activists sang and danced through the streets of Cape Town on Thursday as part of a worldwide campaign to get the United States government to reduce military spending.

Some 500 marchers made their way to the US consulate in central Cape Town to deliver a letter addressed to American President George Bush calling for less spending on the military and more on fighting diseases such as HIV and Aids.

"Hundreds of billions of dollars are being spent on the military instead of investing resources in the biggest threat to human security today - HIV/Aids, tuberculosis, malaria, malnutrition and poverty," said the letter, which was delivered by Aids groups, including the influential lobby group Treatment Action Campaign.

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