Gates gives $100m to fight Aids
Software billionaire Bill Gates is giving $100m (€98.7m) to help fight Aids in India.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said the grant would be used for HIV-prevention.
Microsoft boss Gates said in New Delhi today: “Coming to India is valuable to me for both business and personal reasons ... it’s a place where I believe we can make substantive efforts to eradicate diseases and help develop the healthcare infrastructure in a way that benefits millions of people
Wearing the tika – red Hindu mark – on his forehead, Gates visited a nursing home for HIV-positive patients in New Delhi, where he sat cross-legged on a mattress on the floor with resident Navin Kumar, whose pregnant wife is also infected with the virus.
Kumar said he and his wife had been neglected or turned away from government-run hospitals.
