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.
A Plan for Accelerating Access and Introduction of Injectable CAB for PrEP (Summary)
COMPASS Africa Newsletter (July 2022)
Midterm Newsletter 2022
Developed by the COMPASS MERL team, this issue offers SPARC stories and details on the MERL roadshow.
MERL Handbook for Advocacy Champions
Everything you need to know about MERL for effective advocacy
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!
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.
TB CAB 10-Year Anniversary Evaluation Report 2011–2021 and Podcast
This report details an evaluation of the Global Tuberculosis Community Advisory Board after 10 years of functioning, highlighting strengths, identifying challenging, and illuminating the pathway forward. Visit here for the report and accompanying podcast series.
AVAC’s Strategic Plan 2022-2026
AVAC’s strategic framework is grounded in a multi-layered approach that carefully considers all of the components needed to achieve the organization’s vision, capitalize on its key strengths, and ensure that AVAC is poised to make an impact on the issues it cares most about over the next five years, and beyond.
The vision describes the world we are striving for. The mission describes what AVAC does in service to achieving this vision. The strategic pillars outline the objectives and approaches that AVAC will take over the next five years to achieve its mission and vision. The strategic pillars are supported by AVAC’s core values—the principles by which we work—as well as a set of key enablers.
Advocate, Translate, Catalyze: For HIV prevention and health equity
In this document, we look at the actions we are taking and those that as a field we all need to take to transform prevention “options” developed through research into prevention “choices” for people that can save lives and help end epidemics. This work is critical, and it is shared – just as we developed our strategic plan and EDI statement in partnership with so many, so too will we move this work forward, together.
Where Is PEPFAR’s Strategy for Key Populations?
This document from Health GAP’s PEPFAR Watch is a community analysis of the success and challenges of PEPFAR’s Key Population program and recommendations for the next PEPFAR Ambassador.
Seven Global Civil Society Priorities for the 2021-2025 President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Strategy
As the largest funder of HIV/AIDS programming in the world, PEPFAR has the power and opportunity to move the dial. A large number of AVAC partners and other civil society organizations in Eastern and Southern Africa heard the call for comments and suggestions for the new strategy—and responded here with seven key priorities.
Calling on the Biden Administration to Scale Up mRNA Vaccine Manufacturing Capacity
This joint letter calls on the Biden Administration to rapidly scale up mRNA vaccine manufacturing capacity to reach approximately 4 billion people by the end of 2021.