Charitable Fund against AIDS in India

October 15, 2011

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Bill and Melinda Gates have long been engaged in the financing of the fund, which has been active in the fight against AIDS . More recently, the fund managed to prevent more than 100,000 disease among people at risk and living in India. These data are published in the journal The Lancet.

Funding for this program was launched in 2003, today it concerns the six most hostile regions of India, the number of which is a third of a billion people. The main objective of the project - the protection of the potential risk, which includes prostitutes, drug addicts and people sexual orientation . Free distribution Condom Sterile syringes, and treatment for sexually transmitted infections for the fund includes a program to reduce infections   HIV . According to the authors, the program showed its best side in the southern regions, where the population density is much higher in other areas of its performance was slightly lower.

During its existence, the project against HIV and AIDS called "Avahan" was funded in the amount of more than a quarter billion dollars from the budget Bill Gates. The study authors note that if you divide the funds spent by the number of lives saved, we get about 2,500 dollars per person. Despite the fact that this significant funds, state funds typically spend much more money on the maintenance of life is already infected patients, so these expenses are well founded.

Such active measures to fight the infection in India are primarily connected with the fact that at the beginning of the century actively talked about the fact that the epidemic is gaining momentum catastrophic. However, due to this foundation, the incidence was reduced by 10 times compared with the scheduled data.