Aids Vaccine Advocacy Coalition

Programs: Product introduction:the product introduction program is designed to identify and anticipate needs and gaps and provide targeted tools, support and platforms to expand access to hiv/aids prevention. The program focuses on:-successful scale-up and introduction in three priority countries from the outset; -develop adaptable and scalable tools to support other countries; -support the development of marketable products in the hiv prevention research pipeline; and -create a flexible mechanism to assist product developers, funders and country programs to identify and address barriers to improved products and accelerated introduction. The project is implemented in collaboration with one primary subgrantee the clinton health access initiative (chai), final mile who focuses on end user research and population services international (psi) that supports end user research in south africa.

research preparedness:research preparedness is designed to shape the r&d environment through, advocacy for investment, political support and gpp. Avac developed materials and documents relating to the prevention of hiv/aids; convened multiple meetings with stakeholders such as researchers and civil society leaders to discuss research findings and issued subgrants to 8 partners in the us and africa under the hiv biomedial prevention research project funded by usaid: new hiv microbicides advocacy society (nhvmas) in nigeria , avenir health, fhi 360, international aids vaccine initiative (iavi) and internews in the us, hiv/aids vaccine ethics group of the university of kwazulu- natal (haveg), wits reproductive health and hiv prevention (wits) and waci health in south africa. Avac also issued subgrants to cli, tnca, mesha, cci, pakachere, health gap, icw-ea, hejnu, zamcom, zan. It also includes $2,500 in discretionary funds to fellows and px roar members.

global movement:the global movement identifies, supports and connects an informed network of advocacy partners. Support includes sub-grants to host organizations for fellows primarily in sub-saharan africa and and sometimes additional support to individuals, for example a laptop. Subgrants were issued to kemri, irdo, pina, ceyoho, section 27, ceshhar, jhpiego. Ongoing mentoring via phone and email is an integral part of the program.

the implementation advocacy program is designed to improve evidence-base and rights-based donor and government investments in a comprehensive response to the hiv/aids epidemic. Avac provided technical support and issued 2 sub-grants: 1 to health promotion and social development (heps) and one to treatment advocacy and literacy campaign (talc). The communications program focuses on avac's advocacy work across publications and digital; research literacy/translation; field-wide communications coordination; media capacity building; and external/media relations. Subgrants were provided to cmt and mesha. The policy data and analytics program focuses on expanding resource tracking to include implementation science and prevention as well as supporting dc policy coalitions with relevant transition documents for the new administration and congress.