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Satyam Stops Conducting HIV Tests On Employees To Prevent Discrimination

f company's corporate social responsibility, Satyam Foundation is working in areas like education, healthcare, HIV, environment and livelihood.

The foundation, which recently won a corporate social responsibility award from the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, has already taken up initiatives aimed at creating public awareness, especially among the youth.

The foundation under its HIV awareness campaign plans to cover 200,000 professionals in the next year and a half. It has 4,000 volunteers from among Satyam employees and their family members.

Each of them spends some time during the weekend to work with the foundation in various areas. It may be visiting healthcare centres run by the foundation or schools adopted by it, said Murthy.

Every month each Satyam associate donates Rs.20 for the foundation, which gets a matching contribution from the management. On an average, the foundation gets Rs.400,000 a month from employees alone and an equal amount from the management.

The foundation, which is mainly active in cities where it has operations, has adopted 150 schools. It also runs three healthcare centres in poor localities.

--Edited IANS
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