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By Clay Holtzman , Bizjournals.com
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1400 days ago
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA (Bizjournals.com) - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is increasing its commitment to an HIV/AIDS prevention program it founded in India by $80 million.
The program, called Avahan, was launched in 2003 by the Seattle-based foundation and since then has $258 million in funding. Total funding will now be $338 million.
Bill Gates announced the increase while in India Thursday to receive the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament, and Development, awarded for the Foundation’s work. The Gates Foundation — the world’s largest private foundation — has committed nearly $1 billion for health and development projects in India.
“Prevention is absolutely essential for fighting HIV, and will ultimately save millions of lives,” Gates said. “I congratulate the Indian government for its leadership on HIV prevention, which can be a model for the rest of the world.”
Avahan — which means “call to action” in Sanskrit — provides funding and other support to targeted prevention programs in six Indian states and along national trucking routes.
In June, Forbes published an article criticizing Avahan entitled: “How Bill Gates Blew $258 million in India’s HIV corridor.”
Gates Foundation Global Health President Tachi Yamada responded to the article in a letter this month by Forbes.
“It is disappointing that the Forbes article about Avahan includes significant errors and mischaracterizes key aspects of the initiative,” Yamada wrote. “We remain strongly committed to the fight against AIDS in India, and continue to support effective, sustainable prevention efforts.”
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