World AIDS Day 2009
Below is a selection of items about companies impacts relating to HIV/AIDS (both positive and negative), issued on the occasion of World AIDS Day 2009 (1 December). For more information, see our sections on HIV/AIDS, Access to medicines and HIV/AIDS discrimination.
Positive initiatives
MAC cosmetics artists to trade makeup brushes for aprons on World Aids Day
Drogba, Bono, Nike Team Up to Support AIDS Charity
Scotiabank receives 'My Hero' award from 'AID FOR AIDS International'
Starbucks to make World AIDS Day donations
Access to medicines
Médecins Sans Frontières asks drug firms for HIV drug patent pool
HIV/AIDS discrimination
India: Employees hide HIV status fearing discrimination despite govt, company measures
Kenya: NGO finds companies "doing little" to prevent HIV discrimination