Mobilizing a multisectoral response to HIV that involves workplaces and private companies is good for people and good for business...Beginning in 2004, the USAID-funded POLICY Project worked in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to promote HIV workplace policies and programs...Building on these efforts, the follow-on...have continued to support and establish business councils in Mexico, Jamaica, and Guatemala...The Mexican Business Council on HIV/AIDS (CONAES)...includes in-country and multinational corporations operating in Mexico, such as Ford Motor Company and Pfizer. CONAES has 28 members, covering about 150,000 employees. All but five members have adopted HIV workplace policies or are in the process of doing so. One member, Colgate-Palmolive, adopted a regional policy that was used as an example for the global policy...The Jamaica Business Council on HIV/AIDS (JaBCHA) was launched on World AIDS Day 2006, with 21 founding members...Guatemalan businesses launched the Business Foundation Committed to HIV on World AIDS Day 2007. [also refers to Cable & Wireless, Merck, Sharpe & Dohme (part of Merck), Palo Blanco, Proyectos y Ventas, the National Association of Banana Producers (Guatemala), Cementos Progreso, the National Association of Sugar Producers (Guatemala), Cerveceria Centroamericana, Alimentos Maravilla, Federal Express]