Response from ACT-A leadership:
Sign on and show your support for Communities and Civil Society’s principles for engagement in the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A).
The Background:
A letter was sent on 5 June 2020 to the leadership of Global Health Institutes, calling for a set of principles for community and civil society representation within the ACT-A.
Civil society and communities must be meaningfully involved and enabled to effectively represent their constituencies in the development and governance at every level of the ACT-A including, but not limited to the ACT-A Facilitation Group and across the coordination mechanisms for the three pillars to ensure equitable access.
The letter was signed by civil society and community representatives on the boards of the Global Fund, Unitaid and Gavi, and as the Civil Society Engagement Mechanism of UHC2030 (CSEM).
You can find a copy of the letter including the full set of principles, signatories, and addressees here:
The Ask:
We need your support and are asking you to add your voice to those that have signed the letter. Please fill out the form below and help strengthen the call for the principles laid out in the letter.
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Organisation Signatories
| Name | Organisation |
| Lanice Williams | Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria |
| Rebecca Daedalus | Global Health Council |
| Jessica Hamer | Health Poverty Action |
| Kirsten Mathieson | Save the Children |
| Russell Viner | Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health |
| George Hayes | MSI |
| Naveen Thacker | International Pediatric Association |
| Caroline Usikpedo | Noble Delta Women for Peace and Development Int’l |
| Kate Elder | MSF Access Campaign |
| Ida Savadogo | RAME |
| Allan Ragi | KANCO |
| Yanira Garcia | ACTION, the Global Health Advocacy Partnership |
| Blessina Kumar | The Global Coalition of TB Activists |
| Robin Montgomery | Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development (ICAD) |
| Rachel Cooper | Transparency International Health Initiative |
| Christine Stegling | Frontline AIDS |
| Andreas Gylling Æbelø | AIDS-Fondet (The Danish AIDS-Foundation) |
| Thierno Hamidou BALDE | Zéro Pauvre Afrique |
| Kristine Yakhama | Good Health Community Programmes |
| Tricia Young | Terre des hommes UK |
| Thea Klement | The Access Challenge |
| Annamarie Saarinen | Newborn Foundation |
| Stefania Burbo | Global Health Italian Network |
| Jackson Ndegwa | KANCO |
| Philip Nyakwana | Movement of Men Against AIDS in Kenya (MMAAK) |
| Denise Kodhe | Kenya National Chapter of ECOSOCC |
| George Ayala | MPact Global Action for Gay Men’s Health and Rights |
| Javier Hourcade Bellocq | Civil Society Sustainability Network |
| Mike Podmore | STOPAIDS |
| Rob Dawson | Meningitis Research Foundation |
| Anamaria Bejar | International Planned Parenthood Federation |
| Hauwa Abbas | Silver Lining for the Needy Inititative |
| Alhassan Bakarr Kamara | Health For All Coalition-Sierra Leone |
| Gift Mwale | Kasalika Community Development Organization (KACOD) |
| Catherine Holliday | Centre for Community-Driven Research |
| Joseph MEVOGNON | Fiondation Joseph The Worker/ Structure Lazarienne |
| Alice Welbourn | Salamander Trust |
| Mitchell Warren | AVAC |
| Olive Edwards | Jamaica Community of Positive Women |
| Mark Vermeulen | Aidsfonds |
| Rukia farah | Indigenous Information Network-indigenous community of Muslim women living with HIV in kenya |
| Alhamdu Durami | Association for Protection of Human Right and Community Development |
| Norman Kagiso Matiting | TB Must Fall |
| Rosemary Mburu | WACI Health |
| Philip Waweru Mbugua | NOPE(National Organization of Peer Educators) |
| Robyn Waite | Results Canada |
| Vanessa López | Salud por Derecho |
| Arumugam Sankar | EMPOWER INDIA |
| Itai Rusike | Community Working Group on Health (CWGH) – Zimbabwe |
| Joshua Ochieng | Sauti Skika |
| Ford J. Bosco | Alliance for Sustainable Development Organization (ASDO) – Rwanda |
| Katy Kidd Wright | Global Fund Advocates Network (GFAN) |
| Philip Kenol | Global Health Technologies Coalition |
Individual Signatories
| Name | Organisation |
| Jose Maria Nunag | Youth Coalition for Sexual and Reproductive Rights |
| David Barr | Joep Lange Institute |
| Kiti Kajana Phillips | OSF |
| Resty Nalwanga | GFAN SPEAKER, INDEPENDENT ADVOCATE |
| marilena bertini | CCM comitato Collaborazione Medica |
| Quique Bassat | Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Spain |
| Eric Sarriot | Save the Children |