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Gates foundation donates funds for AIDS prevention

    ABIDJAN

    The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has donated US $25 million to help fight HIV/AIDS in Nigeria.

    The money will go to the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the Harvard Center for International Development, the foundation said on Tuesday.

    The Nigerian AIDS Prevention Initiative will begin by profiling the nature of HIV infection in the country, followed by prevention programmes such as those successfully carried out in Senegal for many years. Infection rates there have remained stable at 2 percent.

    [For full story see item titled ‘NIGERIA: Bill Gates donates funds for AIDS prevention’]

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