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Associated Press - December 20, 2002
"We need a way to touch the heart of the subject. We need to change the face of the disease," the actor said.
Gere hosted a carnival filled with actors from India's popular film industry, including Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan, Aishwarya Rai and Manisha Koirala, who ran game stalls and posed for photographs with fans.
The carnival, organized by the Gere Foundation India Trust and Godrej, a top Indian industrial house, aimed at raising awareness and funds to help prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
"In America, by focusing on children, we got under the radar of prejudices, American prejudices ... We can remove the stigma surrounding the disease here (in India) here by changing the face of the disease," Gere, 53, told reporters.
Money raised at the carnival will go to two organizations focusing on HIV-positive women and children in India, the United States-based Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation and Bombay-based Naz Foundation.
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