ABSTRACT
In October 2003, One World Trust's Global Accountability Project hosted an international workshop in London to discuss best practices in organisations' relations with their external stakeholders. Debates about corporate citizenship and HIV/AIDS parallel broader debates about the role of public–private partnerships in achieving social objectives. At the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development conference on corporate responsibility, in summarising her forthcoming report, Ann Zammit highlighted growing concern about such partnerships regarding the way they can undermine alternative approaches to dealing with the systemic problems with the global economy that create maldevelopment. The report suggests that dialogue and action on the interface between business and HIV/AIDS has focused on the business response to HIV/AIDS, rather than HIV/AIDS's response to business. A number of groups had been campaigning for an interpretation of the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement, and accusing corporations of unhelpful lobbying: an issue covered in previous Annual Reviews.
