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Nearly 50 Harvard College and Summer School students rallied in Harvard Square Saturday, calling on Coca-Cola to provide comprehensive health care—including HIV and AIDS treatments—to the corporation’s African employees...
...June 2001, the Coca-Cola Foundation and the United Nations Joint Programme on AIDS announced an agreement to provide HIV and AIDS resources to people directly employed by Coca-Cola, but the agreement did not include the same resources for the many Africans who work in factories that bottle Coca-Cola products...
...official statement released by Coca-Cola defended the company’s practices, arguing that Coca-Cola itself does provide many of the services AIDS activists are calling for and that the company is not directly responsible for the policies of its subsidiaries...
...Coca-Cola Company provides healthcare coverage to our employees in Africa, which includes free, confidential AIDS testing; access to antiretroviral drugs; and a local AIDS committee that offers basic training in HIV/AIDS awareness,” said the statement. “Our bottling partners, who are independent companies, are at various stages of developing their AIDS strategies. They are responsible for providing healthcare for their employees and some of their healthcare offerings may differ from ours...
TIME: Some U.S.-based investors believe they get plenty of international diversification by owning Gillette and Coca-Cola and all these multinationals. Is that a good way to diversify...