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The New York Times - August 27, 2006
The bride, 26, is an associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, the Manhattan firm, and a director of Keep a Child Alive, an organization based in Brooklyn that provides H.I.V. and AIDS treatments to children and their families in Rwanda, Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa, Uganda and India.
The bridegroom, 29, is the director of pharmaceutical services at the H.I.V. and AIDS initiative of the William J. Clinton Foundation in Manhattan, working with manufacturers to reduce the cost of medications for people living with H.I.V. or AIDS in developing countries.
The bride will continue to use her name professionally. She graduated from Stanford and received both a Juris Doctorate degree and a Master of Laws degree in international legal studies from New York University.
She is the daughter of Dr. Kiran K. Belani and Dr. Kumar G. Belani of Minneapolis. Her father is a professor of anesthesiology at the University of Minnesota Medical School there. Her mother is a pediatrician and infectious disease specialist on the staff at Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota and is a director of Camp Heartland, which operates summer camps for children with H.I.V. or AIDS.
The bridegroom graduated magna cum laude from Harvard. He is the son of Kamlesh Soni and Avinash C. Soni of Northbrook, Ill. His mother works in Riverwoods, Ill., as a senior computer programmer for the Discover Financial Services unit of Morgan Stanley, the Manhattan investment bank. The bridegroom's mother is also an interior designer in Northbrook. His father, a retired mechanical engineer, worked at the Chicago manufacturing plant of ITT's McDonnell & Miller unit, makers of boiler and valve controls.
Ms. Belani and Mr. Soni met in Barcelona in 2002 at the International AIDS Conference; she was a legal intern at the time for the World Health Organization and he was a business analyst at McKinsey & Company, the consultancy, helping to set up operations of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
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