HIV/AIDS top issue for those in corporate responsibility movement

Published: 2004-02-03

NEW YORK (CNS) -- HIV/AIDS has moved into first place among concerns of church agencies in the corporate responsibility field, according to the director of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility. In an interview at the center's offices in New York Feb. 2, Mercy Sister Patricia Wolf said the agencies were asking corporations to evaluate the impact of HIV/AIDS on their workforce and to report on how they were responding with programs of treatment and prevention. While other groups in the corporate responsibility field are working on many issues, faith-based groups are taking the lead on HIV/AIDS, she said. The 2004 edition of "The Proxy Resolutions Book," which the center publishes each January, reports that a stockholder resolution on HIV/AIDS has been filed with American International Group, Caterpillar, Coca-Cola, ExxonMobil, Ford and PepsiCo. The resolution asks those corporations to review the disease's effect "on the company's business strategy and its initiatives to date."

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