Microsoft head Bill Gates has donated 28-million dollars to a South African initiative to prevent HIV infection in women by supplying them with latex diaphragms, SABC radio news reported on Thursday.
The initiative, which is to be launched in Durban on Thursday, includes a study to be conducted among women in Durban South as well as in the Valley of a Thousand Hills.
SABC news said an earlier study conducted in Zimbabwe, where almost a third of the population is infected with HIV, showed women to be very enthusiastic about latex diaphragms. – Sapa