Global Health Advocacy:
From Palo Alto to Nyamirama
What is Political Advocacy?
Rep. Jim Nussle
Why is Advocacy Important
“Each of the great social achievements of recent decades has come about not because of government proclamations, but because people organized, made demands, and made it good politics for governments to respond. It is the political will of the people that makes and sustains the political will of governments.”
--James Grant, Former Executive Director of UNICEF
Global Health Advocacy
Global Health Funding History
Pre-2002: Not much
2002: Global Fund to Fight HIV, TB, Malaria
2003: PEPFAR
2009: Global Health Initiative
2011: FACE AIDS Does Advocacy!
Major Global Health Funders
$750
The Global Health Initiative
Total = $63 billion
Other Global Health Priorities
$12(19%)
PEPFAR & Malaria
$51(81%)
In Billions
Source: Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of data from the Office of Management and Budget, Agency Congressional Budget Justifications prepared by individual agencies, Congressional Appropriations Bills, and White House Statement by the President on Global Health Initiative. Also see: Kates J, The U.S. Global Health Initiative: Overview & Budget Analysis, Menlo Park: Kaiser Family Foundation, December 2009.
U.S. Global Health Initiative (GHI), Proposed Funding for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), Malaria, & Other Global
Health Priorities, FY 2009-2014
Current Global Health Funding
Situation
AIDS Treatment: Meeting the Need
What’s Happening in the US?
Advocate for Change
OpponentSupporter
Level of Influence
FACE AIDS? Paul
RyanJohn Boehner
Tom Harkin
Paul Kagame
Rwandan Defense Forces
National AIDS Control Commission
Rwandan YouthNationalists/Conservative Extremists
Pharm Companies
Abbott Red CrossPIH
Paul Farmer
ONE Campaign
Bill Easterly???
RRP+
Global FundUNAIDSWHO
B-rock ObamaHilary Clinton
Tea Party
PEPFAR (No condoms?)
Religious Institutions
AIDS Denialists
Advocacy tools
Mobilize other students on campus
Talk with your Congresspeople Meet face to face at home or in DC Write letters Call
Write for your local and/or school newspaper
#Occupy