The International AIDS Conference in Mexico City this year highlighted many of the private sector’s best practices in promoting and advancing HIV specific workplace policies and programs…CONAES and Constella Futures co-organized a satellite event that convened multiple organizations dedicated to addressing HIV in the workplace…Jesse Milan, Chair of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Business and Labor Responds to AIDS Partners Board…emphasized the need to invest in employees and their health in the workplace… Mary Kincaid from Constella…emphasized that a business must first focus internally on its own policies before it can focus externally on the national program goals…Sancia Dalley from the Global Business Coalition (GBC) spoke about the GBC’s national connections initiatives and how it aims to be an advisor to national business coalitions in monitoring and evaluation, gender and TB and malaria…[refers to Levi Strauss]