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N Sathiya Moorthy in Chennai
US Ambassador to India Robert Blackwill said in Chennai on Wednesday that the American assistance to fight HIV-AIDS in India would touch $ 120 million in the next five years.
Delivering a special address on 'India, US and the fight against HIV-AIDS', he said it was time to put more vaccines under clinical trial. USAID, the American agency for international development, was also planning to incorporate HIV prevention into its efforts, he said.
Blackwill said US health institutes have tied up with several Indian organisations to improve HIV prevention and care.
Pointing out that women and girls were among the most vulnerable sections, he regretted that only about 40 per cent of married women in India had ever heard of HIV-AIDS.
Blackwill later met Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa at the state secretariat. The meeting was described as a "courtesy call."
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