Not a member of our Global Advocacy Innovation Labs? We still need your help! Here are some things you can do:
- Located In the U.S.? Sign this Petition Demanding Access.
Our U.S. Petition demands that government officials make vaccines and diagnostic tools for COVID19 developed with public funding in the U.S. available to all. If you haven’t already, please sign and share this petition— we need your solidarity and support today.
- Affiliated with a university doing COVID-19 research? Ask the department to sign the Open COVID Pledge.
This week, companies like Microsoft, IBM, HP, and Facebook joined UAEM and C4AA in supporting this pledge and urging universities and other institutions to make their intellectual property available free of charge for use in ending the COVID-19 pandemic and minimizing the impact of the disease. We need more institutions to step up and make the same commitment. Every organization working on COVID-19 should be making this pledge.
If you’re not sure how to start, our Labs have found that personalizing your message makes an enormous difference. If you have a personal connection or mutual friend with someone who has the power to sign on, reach out to them! If you don’t, do your research on potential signatories. How can you connect with them on a personal level? Be bold to make your message stand out: someone might receive dozens of emails each day, but a video or a piece of art will grab their attention.
One reply on “Take Action: Sign the Open COVID Pledge”
Please let’s not lose the world to Covid for the sake of profit. Please help our brothers and sisters everywhere in the world by providing free vaccines to all. Let us be united in this effort to save the people of this planet.