ADVOCACY ALERTS🚨🚨🚨
Use your voice. The movement for change starts with you. Don’t underestimate the power of an email or a phone call.
August 9 Advocates Town Hall Meeting
Calling all advocates! Please register today for this town hall meeting with our advocate task force. Learn about our latest priorities and how you can help!
August 5 Action Alert: Group Letter to President Biden
We wrote a group letter to President Biden asking for a federal task force to address the herpes epidemic. Click here to sign your name today!
July 29 Action Alert: Press Outreach
Three important health writers to contact today to ask that they write about herpes. You can reach out through all available channels for maximum impact.
Ed Yong
Formerly The Atlantic
https://twitter.com/edyong209
Would advise writing to Ed on twitter asking for a story about herpes impact on brain health and potential association with Alzheimer’s, neuro complications, etc.
Ben Ryan
NYT, Wash Post, NBC
https://twitter.com/benryanwriter
benryan423@gmail.com
+1 (917) 697-5773
Sample email to Ben: Hi Ben, I know you cover public health and sexual health issues. Why is genital herpes not being considered in HIV prevention efforts? 30% of new HIV cases are directly attributable to genital herpes – more than any STI. Herpes is not harmless and has potential for subclinical impacts that are not well known or understood. We need a syndemic approach to combat both epidemics.
Are you aware there are nearly 50,000 cases of genital herpes a month in the US? Compared to less than 1,000 for mpox at its peak. And HSV is comparable if not more medically serious. Please consider a story.
Fenit Nirappil
Washington Post
https://twitter.com/FenitN
fenit.nirappi@washpost.com
+1 (202) 618-2620
Sample email to Fenit: Hi Fenit, I know you cover public health and sexual health issues. Why is genital herpes not being considered in HIV prevention efforts? 30% of new HIV cases are directly attributable to genital herpes – more than any STI. Herpes is not harmless and has potential for subclinical impacts that are not well known or understood. We need a syndemic approach to combat both epidemics.
Are you aware there are nearly 50,000 cases of genital herpes a month in the US? Compared to less than 1,000 for mpox at its peak. And HSV is comparable if not more medically serious. Please consider a story.
May 29, 2023 NIAID Funding Request
The NIAID 2024 budget justification is here. Action steps to take, please email NIAID Acting Director Dr. Hugh Auchincloss. Ask why Herpes Simplex isn’t more of a priority to NIAID leadership. Ask for herpes to be more of a priority in the 2025 Congress Budget Justification.
Email template is here.
Dr. Hugh Auchincloss
NIAID Acting Director
hugh.auchincloss@nih.gov
p: 301-761-7348
May 15, 2023 Email HIV White House Program Director
Email the Director of the White House National HIV/AIDS Policy, Harold Phillips. Learn More about Harold Phillips and his role fight the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the US. Ask Mr. Phillips if he is aware that 30% of new HIV cases are directly attributable to herpes – what is being doing to address genital herpes in America.
Email template is here.
Harold Phillips
Director, White House National HIV/AIDS Policy
Harold.Phillips@hhs.gov
Archived Advocacy Alerts
Advocacy at NIH: Multi-Council Working Group for HSV 4/8
NIMHD Advisory Council Meeting Feb 4
Contact the HIV/AIDS Department Head at CDC
Contact Dr. Emily Erbelding, Chief of Microbiology and Infectious Disease at NIAID
Contact Patient Affairs at the FDA
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