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U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary to Travel to India

January 2, 2008

NEW DELHI - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Michael O. Leavitt will travel to India in January.  He plans to visit Chennai, Hyderabad, Cochin, and New Delhi.

While in India, the Secretary will visit sites that produce food and medicine for export to the United States as well as health care facilities that deliver polio vaccine and provide care and treatment for HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. He will meet with senior officials in the Indian Government, business leaders in the export community, as well as university students and faculty.

This trip will be the Secretary's fourth trip to Asia since taking office at HHS.