Gates Gives $47 Million for AIDS Prevention
From Times Wire Reports
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donated $47 million to private agencies working to prevent AIDS in India, said Rajat Gupta, who heads the board of Avahan, the foundation’s India AIDS initiative.
Avahan -- “call to action” in Sanskrit -- was launched as part of the Seattle-based foundation’s $200-million pledge to fight the disease in India, where an estimated 4.6 million people are infected with HIV.
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