Seminar: 'Business against AIDS: Towards a paradigm shift'

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Big corporates to gather in Delhi to help fight AIDS:

New Delhi: CoRE BCSD India, a 52 company-strong platform for Indian

corporates to work for sustainable development, has initiated action

to strengthen Indian industry's response to the AIDS epidemic.

It will bring together the biggest corporate houses of the country,

like HLL, Apollo Tyres, DCM Shriram, Larsen and Toubro, Shree Cement

Limited and Ashok Leyland here on September five and six at a

seminar 'Business against AIDS: Towards a paradigm shift'.

The primary objective of the Seminar is to explore how businesses

can make a better contribution to the fight against HIV/AIDS and how

technology can be utilised in the fight.

The seminar is being held in association with National AIDS Control

Organisation (NACO), International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the

Planning Commission of India.

It will also provide a platform for organisations such as the

Planning Commission, IFC Against AIDS, ILO, GTZ, Bill & Melinda

Gates Foundation, to share their experiences.

CoRE- BCSD, India- TERI has also conducted a preliminary study with

five Indian corporates actively involved to fight HIV/AIDS. The

study has identified possible opportunities and openings for these

companies to implement HIV/AIDS programmes in their supply chain.

The report will be tabled during the Seminar.

India now has the second largest number of HIV/AIDS cases in the

world and the occurrence is the highest in the 18-40 years age

group, which constitutes the most economically productive workforce

of the country.

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