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Associated Press - December 11, 2003
The money - $25 million to each state - will be distributed over five years. It is part of a $200 million grant pledged by the Seattle-based foundation to help fight the disease in India, where an estimated 4.6 million people, or 0.9 percent of adults, have HIV or AIDS.
The donation would double the amount spent in Andhra Pradesh state per year on AIDS prevention, the state's top elected official, Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu, said at the program's launch on Thursday.
In Andhra Pradesh, the money will be distributed to four private agencies to help promote condom use, encourage changing risky behavior, and improve the diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted infections in 20 of the state's 23 districts and along the three national highways that cut across the state.
Last weekend, the foundation granted three private agencies funding in neighboring Karnataka state.
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