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Article

3 Mar 2007

Author:
Evelyn Iritani, LA Times [USA]

China's AIDS battle goes corporate

…[O]fficials in Beijing…are aggressively recruiting foreign companies, grass-roots organizations and trade unions to join the battle against AIDS, encouraging such programs as L'Oreal's…Red Ribbon campaign…[T]he government hopes [to] reach vulnerable groups more quickly…China Railway Construction Corp…was the first state-owned company to establish a policy against AIDS discrimination and set up AIDS education programs…The…government…with the [ILO], the Chinese Enterprise Confederation and the…All-China Federation of Trade Unions, launched a program…to make AIDS education available in the workplace…which will focus initially on migrant workers from rural China…Gap…has helped its Chinese-owned suppliers in Lesotho…establish AIDS treatment programs… [Also mentions De Beers Group]