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Bill Gates gives India $200M to fight AIDS
MYSORE, India, May 3 (UPI) -- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given $200 million for AIDS prevention in India, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
The money is establishing 50 clinics in the country's hardest-hit states to pitch safe sex to prostitutes and the truckers who are their primary clients.
The clinics are set up at highway truck stops and run by local "partners," including trucking and oil companies.
The foundation will also enlist prostitutes to sell the prevention message to their peers at other clinics, training them to help with research and even narrate PowerPoint presentations. The effort is getting marketing help from cricket stars and trying to enlist Bollywood icons.
By 2008, the foundation hopes to arrest the spread of AIDS in six Indian states and go nationwide.
India ranks second to South Africa in number of people infected by HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, with around five million cases. That's less than 1 percent of India's population about one billion.
# Posted : Monday, May 03, 2004
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Star of Mysore & others..
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