Health Global Access Project Incorporated

Programs: Advancing health justice and accountability program: both in the us and abroad, health gap fights to ensure that multilateral and bilateral donors advance the rights of women, lbgti and other key affected populations. Following the reinstatement and expansion of the mexico city policy, we have increased our advocacy around the dangers of preventing women from having access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services. In countries where we work, we build the capacity of key populations and their allies to advocate for increased investments in programs and services that work - including access to safe abortion services - and to oppose laws, policies and systems of oppression that undermine the health rights of marginalized groups.

building activist power: in the us, we work with students, young people, and people living with or affected by hiv, to build the grassroots power needed to achieve the end of the pandemic. In our role as the host organization of the student global aids campaign, we offer financial and technical assistance to a new generation of hiv activists. In key affected countries (including uganda, kenya, malawi, south africa, zimbabwe, and zambia), we work with people living with hiv, key affected populations (including men who have sex with men, people who use drugs, and sex workers), and other civil society groups to support bold, pragmatic activism for an effective global hiv response.

general program: health gap is an international advocacy organization dedicated to ensuring that all people living with hiv have access to affordable life-sustaining medicines. Our team pairs pragmatic policy work with audacious grassroots action to win equitable access to treatment, care and prevention for people living with and affected by hiv worldwide. Since its founding in 1998, health gap played a pivotal role in challenging conventional wisdom that aids drugs were too expensive, too difficult to administer, and too low a priority for people in the global south. We have successfully campaigned to drive down the costs of anti-retro-viral medicines, catalyzed donor support for treatment scale-up (such as the united states' president's emergency plan for aids relief [pepfar] and the global fund to fight aids, tuberculosis and malaria [global fund]), and partnered with activist groups in the global south to advance access to quality treatment and prevention. Our general program supports work that cuts across several of our core priorities.