As a long-standing site of U.S. government bullying in response to HIV treatment programs built on cost cutting generic medicines, Health GAP has supported civil society campaigns to protect affordable access to medicines against U.S. government pressure.

We have supported campaigns to protect affordable access to medicines against industry lawsuits and U.S. government pressure.

We advocate to hold powerful global health institutions accountable, including: the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the World Health Organization, UNAIDS, and Unitaid. Health GAP staff currently serve on the NGO delegation to the Unitaid Board and on the Developed Country NGO delegation to the Board of the Global Fund.

We campaign with Indian allies on intellectual property, trade, and access to medicines and fight to support India’s role as the world’s leading producer of generic medicines.

We campaign alongside civil society to win increased access to quality HIV treatment and prevention; watchdog HIV funding from the U.S. government, multilateral institutions, and the government of Kenya; fight for evidence-based and dignified services for marginalized communities (including LGBTI people, men who have sex with men, people who use drugs and sex workers); and to mobilize communities to demand game-changing new generic HIV medicines faster. Health GAP’s Kenya-based team member powers our work here and beyond.

We campaign alongside civil society to win increased access to quality HIV treatment and prevention; watchdog HIV funding from the U.S. government, multilateral institutions, and the government of Malawi; fight for evidence-based and dignified services for marginalized communities (including LGBTI people, men who have sex with men, people who use drugs and sex workers); and to mobilize communities to demand game-changing new generic HIV medicines faster.

We campaign alongside civil society to win increased access to quality HIV treatment and prevention; watchdog HIV funding from the U.S. government, multilateral institutions, and the government of Mozambique; fight for evidence-based and dignified services for marginalized communities (including LGBTI people, men who have sex with men, people who use drugs and sex workers); and to mobilize communities to demand game-changing new generic HIV medicines faster.

New York City is home to the United Nations (UN), and hosts the yearly UN General Assembly and other UN high-level meetings – important sites for activism to mobilize political will to end the AIDS pandemic. New York is also home to Health GAP’s headquarters.

Since 1999 Health GAP has been fighting for access to treatment by combating U.S. government trade pressure; pharmaceutical corporation lawsuits and price gouging; and more. Today we’re working alongside allies on a campaign to Fix the Patents Laws in South Africa to watchdog funding from the U.S. for the world’s largest HIV programs. Health GAP’s South Africa-based team member powers our work here and beyond.

We are fighting alongside civil society organizations in Tanzania to ensure access to evidence-based, comprehensive HIV prevention and quality treatment for all people living with HIV, to make sure that funding for HIV programs from the U.S. government and multilateral institutions is put to the best possible use, and to fight policies of exclusion and bigotry towards LGBTI communities and other marginalized populations.

Thailand was early site of U.S. government bullying in response to HIV treatment programs built on cost cutting generic medicines. We have worked with local partners on multiple intellectual property, trade, and access to medicines campaigns, as well as campaigns to fight for human rights and access to harm reduction for people who use drugs and their communities.

We fight alongside allies to win treatment and prevention scale up and to watchdog funding from the U.S. government, multilateral institutions and the Ugandan government. We helped secure access to more affordable medicines through patent law reforms. We’re also fighting to end maternal mortality, increase access to reproductive health care (including safe abortion), and to defeat exclusion and bigotry toward LGBTI communities and other marginalized people. Health GAP’s Uganda-based team member helps power our work here.

Health GAP is a close activist partner and fiscal sponsor of the Student Global AIDS Campaign. Health GAP prioritizes building the power of young AIDS activists across the United States to demand U.S. accountability to end the AIDS pandemic.

We work across the United States government to mobilize the funding needed for HIV treatment and prevention. We combat U.S. government trade policies that prioritize intellectual property and investor protections over access to life-saving medicines. Our two U.S.-based team members power our work here.

We partner with civil society organizations in Zambia to win increased access to quality HIV treatment and prevention, improve outdated HIV treatment policies, to make sure that funding for HIV programs from the U.S. government and multilateral institutions is put to the best possible use, to fight for evidence-based and dignified services for marginalized communities (including men who have sex with men, LGBTI people and sex workers), and to mobilize communities to demand game-changing new generic AIDS drugs faster.

We campaign alongside civil society organizations to win increased access to quality HIV treatment and prevention, to watchdog funding from the U.S. government and and multilateral institutions, to fight for evidence-based and dignified services for marginalized communities (including LGBTI people, men who have sex with men, people who use drugs and sex workers), and to mobilize communities to demand game-changing new generic HIV medicines faster.