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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.

In its 2008 report entitled, Business Coalitions Tackling AIDS, the World Economic Forum's Global Health Initiative has cited national business coalitions developed by ARP as effective platforms for the private sector response to the epidemic. According to Richard Samans, World Economic Forum Managing Director, "The goal of the Global Health Initiative is to facilitate and stimulate greater business engagement in health systems and in the fight against HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria".

A survey of 62 local businesses in Tijuana found that only 8% had workplace policies prohibiting discrimination on the basis of HIV/AIDS, one-quarter would eliminate job candidates if they had HIV and more than 1 in 10 would fire HIV positive employees. The results coincide with five complaints received this year by the Office of Human Rights (PDH) within the state of Baja California in Mexico about workplace discrimination against people living with HIV. Given the recent cases of HIV in Tijuana and the reports to the human rights commission, the results of this survey are extremely timely.

Los Angeles, CA - AIDS Responsibility Project (ARP) will launch its "Start the Conversation" initiative with a concert to celebrate ARP Productions' release of a 12-track CD entitled What Are We Living For, with songs written and performed by an array of talented young artists whose performances target the hip hop and youth culture. The concert will take place at Toronto's newest and most vibrant club, Purgatory, from 9-11pm on Tuesday, August 15, 2006.

(KINGSTON) The AIDS Responsibility Project released a Jamaica Corporate Survey today on HIV/AIDS in the workplace, as part of a broad effort to launch a national business council on HIV/AIDS in Jamaica.

The new year began with another expansion of the ARP-Futures Group program on fighting HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination in the workplace in the Latin America/Caribbean region. As part of a partnership with USAID, the Presidents Emergency Plan and Merck, Sharpe & Dohme, the AIDS Responsibility Project and The Futures Group launched their efforts to support and bolster leadership by the Jamaican business community to create a national business council on HIV/AIDS.

At the principal regional gathering of Latin American and Caribbean representatives of national AIDS programs and nongovernmental activist organizations, the AIDS Responsibility Project honored the leadership of Dr. Jorge Saavedra, director of the National Center for the Prevention and Control of HIV/AIDS in Mexico (CENSIDA), and spotlighted the lead that Mexico has taken on a number of key fronts in the fight against stigma and discrimination against people with HIV.

Fostering business leadership in the fight against AIDS yields more than just an improved workplace. The AIDS Responsibility Project and its partners have launched a national business council in Mexico - but the model created there is grabbing attention throughout Latin America because of the wider role it envisions business taking in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

WORLD AIDS DAY; (MEXICO CITY) In a major development for the national fight against HIV/AIDS in Mexico, the formation of the Consejo Nacional Empresarial sobre SIDA (CONAES) was announced today on World AIDS Day 2004, bringing together some of the largest private employers in Mexico to intensify efforts to end HIV/AIDS-related stigma in the Mexican workplace.

Ambassador Randall Tobias, President Bush's envoy on the fight against global HIV/AIDS, rang the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange today and highlighted the leadership of several corporations in the fight against the pandemic across the world.

Medical experts and officials from the United States, Africa and the United Nations are meeting in Botswana today to make decisions that could affect the future of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. At the summit, leaders will discuss the safety and effectiveness of so-called "all-in-one dose" or fixed- dose combination therapy for HIV/AIDS patients.