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How We Advocate

We call on those in power, from local legislators to world leaders, to advance health care as a human right. Our advocacy team meets with local and national government leaders to share lessons, stories, and results from PIH's work around the world. We advocate for legislation that eliminates barriers to care and increases resources to advance global health equity.

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Tell Congress to Reverse Ban on Global Health Funding

Urge Congress to reverse Trump’s 90-day freeze on U.S. global health aid, which began on January 20, 2025.

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Progress isn’t easy, but it’s possible when we act together. Get the latest info on global actions.

Protect Medicaid from Cuts 

Tell Congress to reject Medicaid cuts that will take health care away from our communities to pay for more tax cuts for the wealthiest.

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Health Justice Calls

Join fellow advocates and organizations in the U.S. that are working together to win our collective fight for equity and justice .

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Hill Day April 2025

Join us in Washington, D.C., for an advocacy Hill Day focused on Tuberculosis funding.

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Get Involved Today

Everyone deserves quality health care, but millions lack access. Make a donation to help deliver lifesaving care.

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- Paul Farmer

Our Strategy

Injustice in health has many causes, including social, political, and economic forces. For each of the focus areas below, we work to build political power and achieve specific policy goals. We build power through community organizing, driven by our grassroots network, PIH Engage, and through intersectional coalition building. This power is critical to getting decision-makers to take action to advance health equity, including through introducing, advancing, and enacting specific legislation. 

Our Campaigns

Advancing the Right to Health Globally

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Paul Farmer Memorial Resolution

A Congressional coalition is leading the most bold and ambitious global health legislation ever introduced in Congress: a 21st century global health strategy based on the life's work of Dr. Paul Farmer. The resolution enshrines his vision for health equity to serve as a north star for global health politics for years to come. 

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Global Health Workforce

The Health Workforce Campaign leads coalition efforts to increase U.S. government funding for rural and tribal clinical training and staffing and realize new funding for global clinical leadership development and human resources for health programming.

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Global Economic Justice Reform

Economic justice reform is key to realizing the right to health. We work to advance proposals for: debt cancellation for countries that need it, democratization of international financial institutions, and international tax cooperation to reduce resource theft from the Global South.

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Global Public Goods for Health

During the COVID-19 pandemic, PIH has advocated for equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, treatments, and diagnostics. We advocate for U.S. government investment in the discovery and development of urgently needed new health technologies, particularly for neglected diseases of poverty, and ensuring their availability as global public goods. 

Advancing the Right to Health in the United States

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U.S. Public Health Infrastructure

Alongside coalition partners, we advocate for long-term, U.S. federal investments in public health infrastructure to improve economic and health outcomes and dismantle the structural and social factors that drive health inequity. 

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U.S. Community Health Workforce

Community health workers are essential for achieving better health equity, empowering communities, and building stronger health systems. We champion policies and initiatives that invest in this critical workforce.

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Pandemic Preparedness and Response

Throughout the pandemic, we have supported policies that increase equity-centered response efforts, including expanding funding for testing, contact tracing, and isolation; social support and care resource coordination; and equitable vaccine distribution.

Latest Stories

Atupere Phiri, APZU palliative care clinical officer, Nelson Gonondo, POSER program coordinator, and Judith Kanyenda, APZU palliative care nurse, make the trek—through rain and knee-high vegetation—to conduct a home visit with a patient who has lost his ability to walk due to TB meningitis affecting his brain.
Financing the Right to Health: The Impact of the Sovereign Debt Crisis on Malawi

Learn how debilitating debt payments are undermining health care in Malawi, and the patients PIH serves as a result.

Jen Furin, tuberculosis expert, hugs PIH Principal Chief Program Officer Cate Oswald while Stephen K. McGill, executive director of Stop AIDS in Liberia, and Dr. Melino Ndayizigiye, executive director of PIH Lesotho, join the crowd gathering at the steps of the Capitol for the 2025 TB Hill Day.
TB Hill Day: Asking Congress to Support the Fight Against the World’s Deadliest Infectious Disease

Partners In Health helped facilitate the largest Tuberculosis (TB) Hill Day to date alongside TB experts, survivors, advocates—and bestselling author John Green.

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Financing the Right to Health: How New York Law Aids Global Health Injustice

Predatory legislation enables private creditors to take advantage of countries with high burdens of debt.