Gates cash for AIDS fight to stop in 2013
May 10, 2012  10:51

The decade-long flow of funds from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation into India's HIV control efforts will stop from June 2013, a foundation official said today, intensifying fears among sections of health activists about the future of the programme.

 

Avahan was the first large-scale health initiative in India to be supported by the foundation, said to be t he world's largest philanthropic organisation, and will be the first to be closed if it sticks to the deadline announced today.

 

Read more on the Telegraph, Calcutta.

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