Global Health Advocacy: From Palo Alto to Nyamirama

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