Advocacy

The Center’s mission is to ensure that policymakers, federal agencies, non-governmental organizations, and the media have access to solid, evidence-based input and guidance from IDSA/HIVMA physician scientists and other professional colleagues from both developed and developing countries.

The Center produces and circulates reliable, comprehensive scientific information on HIV and TB through a blog, issue briefs, project profiles, meetings and interviews with U.S. policymakers, members of Congress, and journalists. The Center organizes visits by U.S. policymakers to the research and program sites of IDSA/HIVMA members, both here in the U.S. and in developing countries. The Center also brings scientists from developing nations to the U.S. so they can describe to U.S. officials the reality of maintaining the worldwide progress against HIV and TB.

The Center’s work on HIV/AIDS is focused heavily on prevention—fostering an understanding of and support for new scientific innovations that could change the course of this deadly epidemic. New approaches to prevention are within reach--from male circumcision to the preventive use of antiretroviral drugs. But successful implementation of those innovations will require leadership, commitment and resources.

The Center’s work on tuberculosis aims to build support for a reinvigorated TB agenda, pressing for new attention to prevention and treatment, as well as enhanced resources for scientific research in pursuit of more effective TB drugs, diagnostics, and an effective TB vaccine.

The Center’s goal on HIV/TB co-infection is to educate policymakers, the media, and the broader public about the extent of the threat and to press for an urgent, comprehensive response. The Center is working to build support for aggressive leadership on co-infection, including better HIV/TB program integration, more robust funding for global HIV and TB prevention and control programs, and increased resources for HIV/TB co-infection research.

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