The Role of the Private Sector in Intensifying HIV Prevention

1. The Role of the Private Sectorin Intensifying HIV Prevention Joelle Tanguy Managing Director The Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS jtanguy@businessfightsaids.org International AIDS Conference 2006

2. The prevention imperative • only 0.1% of 15-49 years in South East Asia know their status • only 5% of women living with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa, have access to PMTCT • only 7.6% of injecting drug users in Eastern Europe have access to prevention programs • only 0.5% of sex workers in Eastern Mediterranean are covered by any HIV prevention programs • UNAIDS data 2006

3. Private Sector What role? • Workplace • A stigma free environment • Access to prevention, testing, treatment and care • Community • Core competency • Advocacy and Leadership The prevention imperative

4. Business AIDS Methodology

5. Private Sector Today’sprevention response • Fighting workplace stigma and discrimination • Building awareness/education • Scaling up VCT in the workplace • Supporting community initiatives • Financial, technical and operational support to • PLWA groups and NGOS • Migrant workers communities and sex workers • Promoting greater public awareness • Co-investing with public partners • Scaling up resource mobilization • Advocating for HIV as a political priority The prevention imperative

6. WORKPLACE Key success factors: stakeholders engagementandexecutive champions • Non Discriminatory Policies • Peer Education • VCT

7. COMMUNITY Philanthropy Co-investments • PWLA groups support • NGO prevention programs • Government programs

8. CORE COMPETENCYNew Technologies

9. CORE COMPETENCY Media and Public Education

10. CORE COMPETENCY Marketing…the Global Fund www.joinred.com www.jointhefund.com

11. Next Frontiers • Expanding workplace programs • Broaden reach dependants • Engage business partners to reach SMEs • Focusing on Women and Girls • Supporting at-risk groups • Building on core competencies across the board • Out of the box/all businesses • Marketing new prevention technologies

12. Healthy Women Healthy Economies, Healthy Societies • Extend employee coverage and awareness programs to spouse(s) and dependants • Support girls education as even one additional year decrease chance of girls to contract HIV • Support microentreprise and economic empowerment for women and girls • Develop access & integration of testing treatment & reproductive health services • Use marketing and messaging power of business to support new gender dynamic and introduce new prevention technologies • Expand support to and engagement with women’s groups, national aids programs, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, and initiatives such as IPM and IAVI

13. Operational Barriers to Scaling UpEffective HIV Prevention • Poor planning, inefficient prioritization, and low capacity for performance measures • Limited capacity to manage and deliver prevention programmes • Lack of access to commodities • Lack of effective and efficient coordination mechanisms among stakeholders working at the country level UNAIDS 2006

14. Corporate supportto eliminate operational barriers 2. Expanding Employee volunteering programs 3 Expanding Corporate Giving 4. Partnering with national &local actors 5. Weaving business and HIV strategies leadership Workplace Community 7. Engaging Consumers • Extending corporate workplace programs to dependents 8. Bringing supply chain expertise and support to programs 9. Bringing technical or management expertise to programs 6. CEOs taking a stand

15. Joelle Tanguy Managing Director The Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS jtanguy@businessfightsaids.org