Key messages and numbers to advocate for full funding of the Global Fund.
Global Fund Key Numbers and Messages
ViiV’s Community Stakeholder Engagement Strategy for Low- and Middle-Income Countries (2022-2024)
ViiV’s 2022-2024 strategy for community stakeholder engagement in low and middle income countries pledges a commitment to Good Participatory Practice Guidelines and more.
Px Wire April-June 2022, Vol. 12, No. 1
Newly relaunched, PxWire is AVAC’s quarterly update covering the latest in the field of biomedical HIV prevention research and development, implementation and advocacy. Download for a quick look at where we are in HIV prevention.
A Plan for Accelerating Access and Introduction of Injectable CAB for PrEP (Summary)
AVAC published Translating Scientific Advance into Public Health Impact: A Plan for Accelerating Access and Introduction of Injectable CAB for PrEP to provide a comprehensive view of all the moving parts and identify specific priority actions and actors responsible for ensuring time is not wasted and opportunity not squandered in introducing injectable cabotegravir for PrEP. ViiV, policy makers, normative agencies, donors, program implementers, researchers, generic manufacturers, civil society, advocates and communities each have critical roles to play in the coming months, and this summary provides an overview of the plan.
An Advocate’s Guide to Research in Pregnant and Lactating Populations
A resource that provides background on the need for research in pregnant and lactating populations and how advocates can advance inclusion.
COMPASS Africa Newsletter (July 2022)
Developed by the COMPASS MERL team, this issue offers SPARC stories and details on the MERL roadshow.
AVAC Comments to FDA in Support of PrEP Approval
Comments delivered to the FDA’s Antiviral Drugs Advisory Committee (AVDAC) Meeting by Mitchell Warren, Executive Director, AVAC.
MERL Handbook for Advocacy Champions
This handbook has been put together from various training materials that have been utilized to build the MERL capacity of partners in the Coalition to build Momentum, Power, Activism, Strategy and Solidarity in Africa (COMPASS); between 2018 and 2021.
The overarching aim of this handbook is to enhance theimpact of campaigns; by empowering you with tools to monitor, evaluate and learn from your advocacy. This is a simple guide to understand advocacy MERL!
Translating Scientific Advance into Public Health Impact
AVAC’s Plan for Accelerating Access and Introduction of Injectable CAB for PrEP provides a comprehensive view of all the moving parts involved in delivering this new PrEP option and identifies priorities for ensuring time is not wasted and opportunity is not squandered. The plan focuses on learning the lessons from the first ten years of delivering oral PrEP and how to move faster, more strategically, and with greater coordination to maximize the impact of injectable CAB for PrEP.
Statement on the Dapivirine Ring for Women: Call for Accelerated Global Access
This statement, from a coalition of advocates, applauds the WHO for its ongoing support and its 2021 recommendation of the dapivirine vaginal ring as an additional prevention option for women. The advocates call on funders, country governments and community leaders to sustain their support for the ring’s introduction and rollout in African countries where it is needed and for prompt regulatory reviews. And they call on HIV programs to integrate the ring, and collaborate with communities on the design of those programs.