Drug Companies Fund Aids Conference

In April, eight pharmaceutical companies (Merck, Novartis, Bristol Myers Squibb, Wyeth, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Abbott and Eli Lilly) funded a conference that brought religious leaders, health care workers, government officials and other activists together at Notre Dame to search for ways to bring AIDS medicines to the poor. The conference was organized by Father Oliver Williams, the director of Notre Dame's Center for Ethics and Religious Values in Business.

(left to right): Archbishop of Cape Town, Archbishop
Njongonkulu Ndungane and Rev. Oliver F. Williams, Director,
ND's Center for Ethics and Religious Values in Business