Washington
(ANI):
Angelina
Jolie
and
Brad
Pitt's
foundation
has
announced
a
2-million
dollars
donation
to
Global
Health
Committee
to
set
up
a
TB
and
HIV/AIDS
clinic
in
Ethiopia
to
help
treat
the
affected
children.
The
clinic
shall
be
named
after
their
eldest
daughter,
Zahara,
3,
adopted
from
Ethiopia.
Like
the
Cambodian
Health
Committee's
Maddox
Chivan
Children's
Center
in
Cambodia,
the
Jolie-Pitt
Foundation
backed
centre
shall
provide
medical
education
and
social
services
to
the
children.
"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," People
quoted
Jolie,
as
saying
in
a
statement.
The
centre
in
Ethiopia
would
also
concentrate
on
tuberculosis,
a
disease
that
accounts
for
nearly
2
million
deaths
in
a
year,
and
is
the
principal
source
of
death
in
children
and
AIDS
in
adults,
globally.
Pitt
added:
"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."
The
Jolie-Pitt
Foundation
was
established
in
September
2006,
when
the
duo
had
supported
the
Global
Action
for
Children
organization
and
Doctors
Without
Borders
by
donating
1
million
dollars
to
each.