Saturday, September 13, 2008

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt set up a HIV/AIDS Clinic in Ethiopia

Even their criticize by some like Roseanne Barr, the influential couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt continuously is giving a helping hand as they help kids around the world like children affected by tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS.

The couple's Jolie-Pitt Foundation made a $2 million donation to the Global Health Committee to establish a center to aid children affected by tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia.

The new aid center will be named after their adopted daughter Zahara.

The center will be modeled after the Cambodian Health Committee's Maddox Chivan Children's Center in Cambodia, where children receive medical, education and social services.


Jolie statement via PEOPLE, "Our goal is to transfer the success we have had in Cambodia to Ethiopia where people are needlessly dying of tuberculosis, a curable disease, and HIV/AIDS, a treatable disease."

Pitt says, “It is our hope when Zahara is older she will take responsibility of the clinic and continue its mission. The fact that poor people continue to die in our world today of TB, a curable disease, because of lack of access to drugs and care is unacceptable.

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