As the brand ambassador of UNAIDS, the actress visited Sion hospital on World AIDS day.
The final of the ICC Champions Trophy will be dedicated to the highly successful HIV awareness campaign, THINK WISE, which is a partnership between the ICC, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, the newly appointed United Nations goodwill ambassador for UNAIDS, says she does not want to be just a 'poster girl' for the organisation but will help break social barriers and stigmas that are attached with the disease.
Cricket players from Australia and the West Indies have taken part in coaching clinics with local children in Barbados to raise awareness and reduce stigma about HIV and AIDS in cricket-playing countries.
The rate of new Human Immunodeficiency Virus infections fell by more than 50 per cent in India between 2001 and 2009.
Elected along with India on the board of UNAID were the US, Russia, Ethiopia, Mauritania, Guatemala and Monaco.
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