AHF Advocacy

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AGENDA

• INTRODUCTIONS
• ADVOCACY
• Definition
• Strategies
• AHF Advocacy
• ADAP
• What is ADAP?
• Current ADAP Crisis
• MEDIA FORMULA

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What is Advocacy ?

• Communicating needs and voicing them to people
  who can help.
• Aimed at influencing public policy and decisions.
• In the case of people living with HIV and AIDS
  advocacy is a tool for social and political
  change, to improve the quality of life for those
  infected and affected by the epidemic.

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Advocacy Strategies

• Letter Writing Campaign
• Make phone calls
• Talk to others
• Banners
• Legislative Visits
• Form coalitions
• Protest
• Social Media
• Be active

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AHF Advocacy Efforts

• Legislation
• MEDI-CAL (MEDICAID) to cover hospice care for
  people dying of AIDS (1989)
• Insurance companies covering HIV testing (2008)
• Engaging Elected Officials
• Senator Nelson of Florida
• Speaker Pelosi
• Reduced Drug Pricing
• Merck Isentress
• BMS Reyataz
• Boehringer Ingelheim - WelVista

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• ADAP

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What is ADAP?

• AIDS Drug Assistance Program
• It provides life saving medications to
  low-income, uninsured, under-insured
  individuals living with HIV
• Its a federal match program, to which both state
  and federal governments contribute
• It is the payer of last resort for people with no
  other resources to pay for their medications

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ADAP Funding
Taken from NASTAD Presentation at USCA 2010
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Why are state ADAPs in Crisis?
Economic Downturn has created budget
deficits _at_ state level? need to cut spending
More expensive program Over the last 10
years the price of HIV meds have increased
More need Higher unemployment rate?
uninsured people? more people are eligible for
ADAP
ADAP CRISIS
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Advocacy Calculus

• Identify Understand The Issue
• Identify the Players Who is your target?
• What is your ask? Be Specific

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Media Formula

• Press Advisory
• 2 weeks, 2 days, Day of
• Press Statement
• 3 Speakers, 10 Words
• Press Release
• Day Before, Send and Call
• Press Kit (Hard Copies) to Reporters

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Why you?

• We are in this together
• Its your right
• Its your life and your experience
• If not nowwhen?
• Accountability