Africa: Bollywood Superstar Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Joins UN Fight Against HIV/Aids

27 October 2012

The United Nations today announced the addition of Bollywood icon and former Miss World winner Aishwarya Rai Bachchan to its roster of International Goodwill Ambassadors, focussed on helping the Organization's efforts in combating the spread of HIV infections in children.

At a press briefing at UN Headquarters in New York with Michel Sidibé, the Executive Director of the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the Indian actress celebrated the appointment as a "turning point" in her life, adding that her new focus on fighting the transmission of HIV/AIDS from mothers to their babies was not to "just prove a point or become a headline sensation."

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