PepsiCo addresses HIV/AIDS in the community through three key initiatives:

Community Outreach

Simba provides peer counselor training for employees at the workplace, on company time and with company support. Those employees are then actively encouraged to educate their families and members of the community.

Charitable Outreach

Nelson Mandela Children's Fund

In recognition of the toll that HIV/AIDS and related disease has taken on families, Simba has chosen to focus its charitable contributions on the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund, a project that reaches out to impoverished children and supports orphanages. Learn more about Nelson Mandela Children's Fund: http://www.nelsonmandelachildrensfund.com/

PepsiCo Foundation Matching Gifts Program

Through the PepsiCo Foundation Matching Gifts Program, PepsiCo matches employee donations to a variety of groups working to combat HIV/AIDS.

Volunteer Activities

Chicago House has served over one thousand homeless Chicagoans living with HIV and has continuously evolved to meet the changing realities of the disease. In the beginning, Chicago House provided end-of-life care but today, thanks to medications that help people live longer lives, the agency helps men, women, and children affected by AIDS build lives of health and hope.

Members of the PepsiCo employee network EQUAL in Chicago, as part of QTG's Celebration of Caring, volunteered at Chicago House. The associates cleaned, weeded, planted the grounds, and improved the play area by adding wood chips at the slide and swings.

Business Outreach

PepsiCo is a member of Global Business Coalition, a group working to fight HIV/AIDS on a global basis. Goals include:

• Implementing HIV/AIDS workplace prevention and care programs.
• Improving the reach and effectiveness of programs.
• Lobbying for greater action by government and others.
• Leadership and advocacy by business.

For more information visit the Global Business Coalition at http://www.businessfightsaids.org