Indira Gandhi peace prize for Bill Gates

| July 25th, 2009 | By: Bijoy Bora | Category: Nation

New Delhi: Bill Gates, the founder Chairman of software giant Microsoft, received the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development on behalf of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

The Foundation has been actively working here in the field of health and development.

President Pratibha Patil presented the prize for the year 2007, at a function at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Saturday.

The foundation has been working actively on a range of issues, including HIV/AIDS.

In 2003, the foundation launched Avahan, a 10-year initiative to support India’s efforts to reduce the spread of HIV. To achieve this the foundation has been working with vulnerable communities like sex workers, drug injectors, and men having sex with men, among others, in six states of the country.

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