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.
The initiative, which was launched by the United Nations Environment Programme in 2003 in collaboration with Indian banks, was aimed at providing loans to rural households for setting up solar energy systems. Besides, the 'Billion Tree Campaign' launched in 2006 and the 'Environmental Management of Iraqi Marshlands' leading to partial restoration of the largest wetland ecosystem in West Asia were among other UNEP projects which won the awards.
Elected along with India on the board of UNAID were the US, Russia, Ethiopia, Mauritania, Guatemala and Monaco.
'India has been placed at a level, which would ensure that red tape is cut away. That's the biggest assurance that one can get -- the biggest takeaway.'
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar expects to see progress in India-US defence relations at the speed of a year per month.
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