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Ashley Judd in Delhi for AIDS awareness
18th Mar 2007 12.32 IST
By Agencies

After spreading awareness about HIV/AIDS prevention in Mumbai among sex workers and slum dwellers, Hollywood actor Ashley Judd is set to meet corporate executives and industrialists in Delhi to convince them to take up the issue that has affected 5.2 million people in the country.

The star of movies like "High Crimes" and "Kiss the Girls", who is on a three-week visit to spread awareness about HIV-AIDS prevention and maternal and child health, will be in Delhi for four days during which she will also meet several NGOs connected with AIDS awareness in the city.

In Mumbai since her arrival on March 8, the actor teamed up with Bollywood star Sushmita Sen for a National Geographic documentary on AIDS awareness in the country.

Judd, who is in India at the invitation of Population Services International (PSI), a global initiative that generates funding for grassroots programmes in 65 countries, visited Mumbai's biggest red light district Kamathipura.

"In Kamathipura, she interacted with sex workers and their children to spread the message of AIDS awareness and prevention," a PCI official is quoted as saying.

Apart from visiting Kamthipura, she visited the biggest slum of Asia, Dharavi, and had also met corporate heads.

"The interaction in Delhi would dwell on several initiatives that could be taken up by the industrialists to further the cause in the country," the official said.

The documentary which will be premiered on World AIDS Day on December 1 will show India's fight to combat the dreaded disease.

Judd will visit Jaipur on March 22 where she will take up issues like family planning, women's empowerment and women's health with Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje.

Judd will also visit Taj Mahal.

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