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April 30, 2024AVAC Letter of Support for Appropriations Funding for FY2025
AVAC submitted a letter to Chairwoman Baldwin, Chairman Aderholt, and Ranking Members Capito and DeLauro asking for increased funding of immunization-related activities as part of the fiscal year (FY) 2025 Appropriations bill, including: $1.6 billion for the National Immunization Program; $241 million for Influenza Planning and Response at CDC’s NCIRD; and $150 million for CDC’s […]
Letters to Congress Appropriations/Funding for Immunization
October 7, 2022AVAC Letter of Support for Appropriations Funding for FY2023
September 20, 2022 The Honorable Rosa DeLauro Chair House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Washington, DC 20515 The Honorable Patty Murray Chair Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable Tom Cole Ranking Member House Appropriations Subcommittee on […]
Letters to Congress Appropriations/Funding for Immunization
September 29, 2022AVAC Letter of Support for Supplemental Funding for Fiscal Year 23 Continuing Resolution
September 22, 2022 The Honorable Patrick Leahy Chair Senate Appropriations Committee Washington, D.C. 20510 The Honorable Rosa DeLauro Chair House Appropriations Committee Washington, D.C. 20515 The Honorable Richard Shelby Vice Chairman Senate Appropriations Committee Washington D.C. 20510 The Honorable Kay Granger Ranking Member House Appropriations Committee Washington, D.C. 20515 Dear Chairman Leahy and DeLauro, Vice […]
Letters to Congress Appropriations/Funding for Immunization
April 18, 2022AVAC Letter on Fiscal Year 2023 Appropriations
April 6, 2022 The Honorable Rosa DeLauro Chair House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Washington, DC 20515 The Honorable Tom Cole Ranking Member House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Washington, DC 20515 The Honorable Patty Murray Chair Senate Appropriations Subcommittee […]
Letters to Congress Appropriations/Funding for Immunization
April 18, 2022Supporting Supplemental COVID-19 Funding
March 30, 2022 The Honorable Charles Schumer Majority Leader U.S. Senate Washington, D.C. 20510 The Honorable Nancy Pelosi Speaker U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515 The Honorable Mitch McConnell Minority Leader U.S. Senate Washington D.C. 20510 The Honorable Kevin McCarthy Minority Leader U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515 Dear Leaders: On behalf of […]
Letters to Congress Appropriations/Funding for Immunization
December 13, 2021AVAC Supports Section 139402 and Section 139405 of the Build Back Better Act
December 13, 2021 The Honorable Charles Schumer Majority Leader U.S. Senate Washington, D.C. 20510 Dear Majority Leader Schumer: Thank you for your strong support and leadership in improving access to vaccines for older adults and individuals with chronic conditions who rely on federal programs for vaccine coverage. We are grateful that the Build Back Better […]
Letters to Congress Eliminating Disparities
July 19, 2021AVAC Provides Feedback for the Development of 21st Century CURES 2.0
To Representatives DeGette and Upton: The Adult Vaccine Access Coalition (AVAC) appreciates the opportunity to provide feedback that will help shape and inform the development of 21st Century Cures 2.0. We greatly appreciate your years of leadership in federal policymaking aimed at accelerating innovations in clinical research and trials as well as improving processes that […]
Letters to Congress Eliminating Disparities
May 28, 2021AVAC 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 […]
Letters to Congress Eliminating Disparities
May 4, 2021AVAC 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 […]
Letters to Congress Eliminating Disparities
March 25, 2021AVAC 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. […]
Letters to Congress Appropriations/Funding for Immunization
March 19, 2021AVAC 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. […]
Letters to Congress Eliminating Disparities
March 19, 2021AVAC 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 […]
Letters to Congress Appropriations/Funding for Immunization