The richest man in the world met with some of its poorest Monday, and pledged $100 million to fight the spread of AIDS in India. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates opened his four-day, controversy-laced visit to the South Asian nation by visiting HIV-positive patients in a private hospice.
``It's a very brave thing to speak out and it's a problem that needs a lot of brave people,'' Gates told Naveen Kumar, an HIV-positive man who told him how he was rejected by public-health facilities in India.
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