In recognition of World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee and other faith-based organizations are expanding their shareholder advocacy efforts to make HIV/AIDS drugs available in the poorest countries of Africa and Asia. 

UUSC is the primary filer again this year of an HIV shareholder resolution at Merck and Co. In 2004, shareholders at Merck gave the resolution 13.6 percent, the highest of any drug company.

The Service Committee is a member of the Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), a coalition of 275 faith-based organizations who use their investment portfolios to challenge unjust corporate policies. one of the coalition's major campaigns in its shareholder advocacy work is to get HIV/AIDS drugs to the poor in developing countries, especially children. UUSC has seen the ravages of the pandemic in its work in Africa and Asia.

Visit Religious investors expand fight to get drugs to the poor to read about the interfaith fight to get HIV/AIDS drugs to the poor.

Posted Nov. 29, 2004