Jolie, Pitt plough US$2 m into clinic

NEW YORK – Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are giving back to the country where their three-year-old daughter Zahara was born.

The couple have donated US$2 million to help fight HIV-AIDS and tuberculosis in Ethiopia, said the Global Health Committee, which announced the donation by the Jolie-Pitt Foundation. The organisation will use the money to build a centre in the capital city of Addis Ababa for children affected by the disease and establish a programme to treat tuberculosis in children and adults.The centre will be named for Zahara.The World Health Organisation estimates that the African nation has 1,7 million people infected with HIV and 6 000 people infected with drug-resistant tuberculosis.”It is our hope when Zahara is older she will take responsibility of the clinic and continue its mission,” Pitt (44) said in a statement.The couple worked with the Global Health Committee to open the Maddox Chivan Children’s Centre in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, named after their oldest son, seven-year-old Maddox, who was adopted from Cambodia.Since February 2006, the centre has provided medical treatment, education and social services to children affected by HIV-AIDS and tuberculosis.”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,” Jolie (33), said in a statement.Nampa-APThe organisation will use the money to build a centre in the capital city of Addis Ababa for children affected by the disease and establish a programme to treat tuberculosis in children and adults.The centre will be named for Zahara.The World Health Organisation estimates that the African nation has 1,7 million people infected with HIV and 6 000 people infected with drug-resistant tuberculosis.”It is our hope when Zahara is older she will take responsibility of the clinic and continue its mission,” Pitt (44) said in a statement.The couple worked with the Global Health Committee to open the Maddox Chivan Children’s Centre in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, named after their oldest son, seven-year-old Maddox, who was adopted from Cambodia. Since February 2006, the centre has provided medical treatment, education and social services to children affected by HIV-AIDS and tuberculosis.”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,” Jolie (33), said in a statement.Nampa-AP

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