India’s Ban on Foreign Money for Health Group Hits Gates Foundation<br />Mr. Chhibber, the public health foundation’s media relations director, said<br />that a large part of the organization’s tobacco program involved research on tobacco’s health effects.<br />The public health organization, the Public Health Foundation of India, is a public-private partnership that was started by the government in 2006.<br />By NIDA NAJARAPRIL 20, 2017<br />NEW DELHI — The Indian government has blocked one of the country’s largest nonprofit public health organizations<br />from accepting money from foreign donors, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.<br />The group claims the foundation is connected to pharmaceutical companies, said Ashwani Mahajan, a senior member of the organization, which is putting together research detailing its assertion to present to the government<br />and to request government action against the Gates Foundation.<br />The Public Health Foundation of India has long been a giant in the public health sphere here.<br />The cancellation of the health organization’s license to accept international financing is the latest move in<br />an aggressive government crackdown on nongovernmental organizations that receive money from outside India.
