Kings XI Punjab, a community driven team has collaborated with AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the global AIDS organisation providing medical care to AIDS affected patients through its India office, registered as India Cares.
Under Kings XI Punjab’s social responsibility plan, the aim of this initiative is to scale up awareness and implementation of HIV counseling, testing and referral services to the vulnerable populations in India.
During an awareness event conducted in collaboration with Post Graduate Government College for Girls, Sector 42 here and a youth based organization Yuva where the collaboration between AHF and Kings XI Punjab was officially announced, Dr Nochiketa Mohanty, Country Program Manager, AHF India said, “This would be a part of AHF’s 20x20 global campaign to scale up access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) for at least 20 million people by year 2020.”