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AVAC Leads a Letter in Support of the Protecting Seniors Through Immunization Act

May 27, 2021  Dear Majority Leader Schumer, Speaker Pelosi, and Minority Leaders McConnell and McCarthy:  During Older Americans Month, we, the undersigned organizations that care about healthy aging, write to offer our strong support for the Protecting Seniors Through Immunization Act (S. 912/H.R. 1978). This bipartisan, bicameral legislation, led by Senators Hirono, Capito, Whitehouse, and […]

Are we ready to immunize Americans on a mass scale with COVID-19 vaccines? webinar, May 13, 2021

AVAC Supports the Maternal Immunization Enhancement Act and the Maternal Immunization Coverage Act

Dear Senators Hassan and Cassidy, We write to express our strong support for the Maternal Immunization Enhancement Act and the Maternal Immunization Coverage Act. We appreciate your leadership around modernizing and improving maternal immunization rates. Since 2004, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has issued recommendations on the importance of maternal immunization, and currently […]

AVAC Urges Senate to Support Full Funding of Immunization-Related Activities at the Department of Health and Human Services.

March 10, 2021 Dear Chairwoman Murray and Ranking Member Blunt, As members of the Adult Vaccine Access Coalition (AVAC), we write to ask for full funding of immunization-related activities at the Department of Health and Human Services as part of the fiscal year (FY) 2022 Labor, Health and Human Services (LHHS), and Education Appropriations bill. […]

AVAC Makes Recommendations to the Biden Administration on Immunization Infrastructure Systems (IIS)

Dear President Biden,  The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a devastating toll on our society. With more than 400,000 American lives lost, millions of people forced to file for unemployment, and too many children falling behind in school during online instruction. As the national strategy for the efficient, effective, and equitable distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines […]

AVAC Puts Forward Recommendations on the Biden Administration’s Vaccine Confidence Campaigns

Dear President Biden,   Thank you for your continued efforts to end the COVID-19 pandemic, strengthen vaccine confidence, and improve vaccination rates throughout the United States. We appreciate that the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 dedicates $1 billion to build vaccine confidence, support vaccine education, and improve vaccination rates for COVID-19 vaccines as well […]

AVAC Expresses Strong Support for the Helping Adults Protect Immunity Act

Dear Senator Brown, We write to express our strong support for the Helping Adults Protect Immunity (HAPI) Act. We appreciate your bi-cameral leadership to strengthen access to immunizations under Medicaid. Medicaid, along with the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), is a federal-state insurance partnership that provides coverage to over 70 million low-income children and adults. […]

AVAC Urges the Biden Administration to use its Presidential Budget to Tackle Vaccination Barriers

Dear President Biden  As our nation undergoes a vaccination program that will be the greatest public health efforts of our generation, members of the Adult Vaccine Access Coalition (AVAC) and stakeholder partners ask that as you consider updating longstanding structural flaws in our vaccine policies as part of the Build Back Better Recovery plan. Inequities […]

AVAC Releases Statement of Support for the Protecting Seniors Through Immunization Act

Statement in Support of the Protecting Seniors Through Immunization Act of 2021 The following is a statement regarding the introduction of the Protecting Seniors Through Immunization Act of 2021 [link] from Patricia D’Antonio, co-chair of Adult Vaccine Access Coalition (AVAC) and the vice president of professional affairs for The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and […]

AVAC Supports the Introduction of the Protecting Seniors Through Immunization Act to Congress

Dear Representatives Kuster and Bucshon, As members of the Adult Vaccine Access Coalition (AVAC), we commend you for introducing the Protecting Seniors Through Immunization Act of 2021. AVAC consists of more than sixty organizational leaders in health and public health who are committed to raising awareness of the importance of adult immunization with the ultimate […]