Shaping a new era of global health investment, policy, planning and prevention
AVAC is part of a robust civil society movement helping to shape a new era of global health spending and planning related to HIV prevention. We mobilize to ensure programs, products and policies are evidence-based, inclusive and effective. With our partner network, we identify critical needs and develop strategic campaigns to advance HIV prevention, with a focus on ensuring a rich pipeline of options move through research and development, and rollout effectively to reach the communities who need them most.
Our advocacy takes place:
Blog Post
AVAC condemns a series of actions taken by the U.S. presidential administration to dismantle U.S. leadership in research, development and delivery of lifesaving vaccines. Without U.S. government leadership, the country and the world will remain woefully unprepared for ongoing and emerging pandemic threats.
presentation
This presentation, delivered by AVAC’s Executive Director, Mitchell Warren at IAS 2025, shares a sobering picture of the sweeping changes to science, global health and particularly, HIV R&D since January 20, 2025. It outlines the impact of foreign aid cuts, NIH grant terminations, and policy shifts and shares a vision for the future.
Blog Post
AVAC denounces recent proposals and actions by the US administration that signal a clear intention to defund and eliminate lifesaving global health research, development and delivery programs. If passed by Congress, proposed funding rescissions for the current year’s budget would claw back billions of Congressionally appropriated dollars for critical, life-saving programs.
Percentage of key population-serving implementing partners that have reported full or partial termination of the provision of KP services due to US funding cuts (as of April 2025).
Accelerating the development and delivery of STI prevention.
Using data for smarter advocacy and high-impact campaigns.
Developing an Africa-centered network dedicated to accelerating HIV prevention research, and advancing equitable access to proven HIV prevention products.
In response to the US government’s August 26 emergency application to the US Supreme Court seeking to stay the preliminary injunction in the AVAC v Department of State legal case against the foreign aid freeze, AVAC’s Executive Director, Mitchell Warren, asks whether SCOTUS will restore some of the checks and balances this administration is consistently undermining.
AVAC condemns a series of actions taken by the U.S. presidential administration to dismantle U.S. leadership in research, development and delivery of lifesaving vaccines.
With the increased abuse of technology in surveilling and criminalizing healthcare, especially abortion and gender affirming care, more and more people are asking: is my personal health data safe? Kendra Albert, a public interest technology lawyer, discussed the current state of health data privacy, especially as it relates to people living with HIV. Participants learned basic concepts in health data privacy and what actions they can take to improve health data privacy on the state level.