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Resources
Several organizations globally and across India are working diligently to prevent the spread, to care for those already infected, and to mobilize resources to overcome HIV/AIDS.
They include:
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – HIV/AIDS Programming http://www.gatesfoundation.org/GlobalHealth/Pri_Diseases/HIVAIDS/default.htm
- Avahan is the Gates Foundation India initiative. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has committed $200 million to prevent the spread of HIV in India, through its India AIDS initiative, Avahan, launched in April 2003. Avahan in Sanskrit is a “call to action”.
- UNAIDS – India http://www.unaids.org/en/geographical+area/by+country/india.asp
- National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) http://www.nacoonline.org/
- AVERT http://www.avert.org/
- SAATHI http://www.saathii.org/



