AWHP is proud to be a leader and member of several impactful stakeholder coalitions that are working to advance our four policy pillars: addressing social and environmental factors, advancing access to care and treatment, early detection and diagnosis, and advancing vaccine access and affordability.
Every year, more than 50,000 adults die from vaccine preventable diseases.
Thousands more suffer serious health problems that could have been prevented by accessing recommended immunizations. Yet adult vaccination rates remain unacceptably low. AVAC is a diverse group of healthcare providers, vaccine innovators, pharmacies, public health organizations, and patient and consumer groups working together to eliminate informational, financial, and logistical barriers to adult vaccination.
All Copays Count Coalition
The All Copays Count Coalition comprises more than 80 national 501c3 non-profit, non-partisan patient advocacy and provider organizations representing millions of people living with serious, complex, chronic illness. It represents people who need full and ongoing access to medical care, including specialty medications, to treat their conditions and to keep them healthy. ACCC is working to ensure that all copayments made by or on behalf of a patient count toward their deductible and out-of-pocket limit – and that patients can access the medications they need.
The mission of the Alliance of Sleep Apnea Partners is to promote and advocate for screening, diagnosis, treatment, and management of optimal health of those who suffer from sleep apnea. They serve as connectors between sleep apnea patients and other stakeholders such as the federal government, industry, medical and scientific experts and other advocacy organizations.
Champions for Vaccine Education, Equity and Progress
Champions for Vaccine Education, Equity and Progress (CVEEP) was established to serve as a trusted source of information and a leader of discussions among organizations representing a variety of communities that face challenges from infectious respiratory illness, particularly diverse communities that have been most harmed by the effects of respiratory illness.
The Coalition to Strengthen Bone Health brings together the voices and strengths of aging, family caregiver, women’s health, and bone health advocates to raise awareness about the importance of bone health and the impact of osteoporosis and bone fractures on families and taxpayers and help advance evidence-based policy solutions to improve bone health.
The Data Equity Coalition is a partnership to improve health outcomes through better, more accurate and more representative data on race, ethnicity and language (REL) and sexual orientation and gender identification (SOGI). Developing a standardized approach to this important data can be critical to ensuring everyone in America has an equal opportunity to attain their highest level of health.
Led by AWHP with the support of 19 other leading organizations across the healthcare space, the EveryBODY Covered campaign is working to ensure that everybody has access to evidence-based obesity care options. Comprehensive obesity care should be covered just as care for other chronic diseases is covered—it’s only fair.
HealthyWomen’s HPV Coalition aims to raise awareness about HPV and the role that vaccines play in preventing HPV-related cancers, including cervical cancer.
The Obesity Care Advocacy Network (OCAN) works to increase access to evidence-based obesity treatments by uniting key stakeholders and the broader obesity community around significant education, policy and legislative efforts. OCAN envisions a future where obesity is fully recognized and treated as a complex chronic disease.