Drug company exec urges donors to remember AIDS charities

While global attention is focused on the Indian Ocean tsunami catastrophe, corporate donors should not forget the millions infected or affected by AIDS, Bristol-Myers Squibb CEO Peter Dolan said Friday. Dolan was reviewing a BMS-funded treatment support program in Ladysmith in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Dolan estimates some 9,000 people worldwide die of AIDS every day--many of them in Africa. "That's the equivalent of having a tsunami coming at us about every three weeks," he said. "We clearly need to keep the world's attention focused on the problem." (AP)