Advocate

Taking action to demand equity and access

Supporting global health and HIV advocates to use their expertise, interests, skills and voices to influence and expedite an ethical, equitable and effective COVID-19 pandemic response.

Act Now

• Demand that product developers publicly disclose the true costs of vaccine development to ensure fair pricing
• Demand governments prioritize health system strengthening to support equitable global rollout
• Push product developers and funders to build appropriate manufacturing capacity and develop innovative partnerships for these vaccines as public goods
• Demand governments support the proposed TRIPS waiver to ensure non-enforcement of IP until the majority of the world population receives effective vaccines
• Advocates Call for Ethical Research for COVID-19 Solutions
• Calling on the Biden Administration to Scale Up mRNA Vaccine Manufacturing Capacity
• Sign on Statement: EU Green Pass is unethical and unfair

Learn More

• Read our Advocate's Guide to COVID-19 Vaccine Access, a timely tool to plan for rapid, affordable and equitable access to this and other vaccines
• Check out Protecting Global Gains, a new initiative that showcases innovation to advance more resilient and sustainable systems for health
• Action Alerts: Timely calls for advocates to engage in the COVID response and help advance a ‘pandemic policy change’ agenda.
• Removing Political Interference from the White House Coronavirus Task Force, April 9
• Call to Action: APHA/ICW-EA’s Call to African leaders to accelerate action on COVID-19
• ‘Act now’ on global vaccines to stop more-dangerous variants, experts warn Biden - Health officials and activists ramp up pressure on the administration to deliver on promises of global vaccine equity.