Rise Advocacy Chapter & GAP Joint December Webinar: Women & Children in Global Health

At our final webinar of 2025, guest speaker Dorothy Monza shared critical updates on the impact of this year’s devastating cuts to foreign aid on women and girls, and what we can do about it! See resources for a reflection on this year in advocacy, and the outlook for 2026.

• Recording
• Presentation (PDF)
• Contact your members of Congress: Take Action Now!
  • Congress: We must see through on all U.S. pledges to the Global Fund (updated, November 2025)
  • Congress: Famine and violence in Gaza need action
  • Congress: Urge lawmakers to support Gavi
• 600 Voices Media Campaign resources: Write & submit a letter to the editor!
  • Media Action: Congress Must Fund Foreign Aid
  • Media Action: U.S. must make a bold pledge to the Global Fund
• Additional webinar resources
  • • HPV: https://www.gavi.org/types-support/vaccine-support/human-papillomavirus 
    • Malaria: https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/malaria-vaccine-guide
    • HIV: https://www.gilead.com/news/news-details/2025/gilead-joins-partners-for-delivery-of-first-shipments-of-breakthrough-twice-yearly-lenacapavir-for-hiv-prevention-to-sub-saharan-Africa 
    • Gavi and UNICEF announce equitable pricing deal for malaria vaccine to protect 7 million more children by end of decade 
    • USAID Media (resource for hooks to write letters to the editor and other media)
    • WHO secretariat report on Women, Children, and Adolescent health