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From the Executive Director

Dear Friends of ARP:

I hope you will join us for ARP's Corporate Social Responsibility and HIV Leadership Breakfast in Mexico City on August 4, 2008. The breakfast will be held from 8 - 9:30AM at the Four Seasons Hotel on Reforma in conjunction with the World AIDS Conference also being held in Mexico City.

During the Leadership Breakfast, we will honor leaders from business and government who have worked to build and strengthen the business community's response to HIV. We will highlight the importance of strong public-private partnerships to fight HIV, and we will honor HIV/AIDS business councils, which have become perhaps the best way companies can organize to take concrete action to end this epidemic.

Co-sponsors for the Leadership Breakfast include the American Chamber of Commerce in Mexico, the Pan American Health and Education Foundation, CONAES - Mexico's first business council on HIV/AIDS, and JaBCHA - the first business council on HIV/AIDS in Jamaica . Confirmed speakers include Julio Frenk, Executive President of the Carso Health Institute and former Mexico Secretary of Health, Jorge Saavedra, Director General of Mexico's National HIV Program (CENSIDA), Roberto Tapia, Director General of the Carso Health Institute and former Mexico Undersecretary of Health, Mark Dybul, US Global AIDS Ambassador, and John Tedstrom, Executive Director of the Global Business Council on HIV/AIDS. I expect the event will be well attended by the Mexico business community and the media.

ARP is proud to have led the effort to form CONAES, the first business council on HIV/AIDS in Mexico. Because of our success in Mexico, ARP subsequently led the effort to form JaBCHA and FUNDEC-VIH, the first HIV/AIDS business councils in Jamaica and Guatemala respectively. All three councils have grown in membership and outreach and are now considered to be among the premier national HIV/AIDS business councils in the world. In fact, all three councils were recently highlighted as examples of excellence in a report released during the 2008 World Economic Forum in Davos. (See the report Business Coalitions Tackling AIDS at www.weforum.org/globalhealth.)

The 2008 World AIDS Conference is the first time this important event is being held in Latin America. As the host country, Mexico is in a unique position to showcase examples of leadership for the world community. As a premier national business council on HIV/AIDS, CONAES represents the Mexico business community's commitment to fighting the AIDS epidemic.

In a few short years CONAES has achieved its primary goal and now serves as a platform for the business community in Mexico to take a leadership role in the fight against HIV. Funds raised at the Leadership Breakfast will be used to expand ARP's business council development work and to encourage other innovative opportunities for the business community to join the fight against HIV.

I hope you will be able to support this unique opportunity to recognize the men and women who are leading the business response to HIV in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Abner Mason