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July 06, 2007
Big Philanthropies Plan to Continue Effort to Fight AIDS in India
Though India is expected to announce a sharply lower estimate on the number of its citizens infected with HIV, several prominent American grant makers and charities are refreshing their pledges to fight AIDS in that country, reports The Wall Street Journal.
The new estimate may be as much as one-third to one-half less than the 5.7 million that the United Nations previously estimated, the newspaper notes.
But major efforts led by the Bill & Melinda Gates and William Jefferson Clinton foundations will continue, each tells the paper, as the risk to India’s 1.1 billion population has not disappeared.
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