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Take Action Today!
With World Hepatitis Day just around the corner (July 28th), now is a good time to remind Congress about the importance of continued funding and support for critical hepatitis B services and programs. Although the COVID-19 pandemic remains top priority, we cannot lose momentum towards eliminating other infectious diseases like viral hepatitis during this time – especially knowing that people with liver disease may be at greater risk of complications from COVID-19.
We encourage you to take time during this week leading up to World Hepatitis Day to reach out to your Members of Congress – via email, phone, and/or social media – to help raise awareness and advocate for hepatitis B prevention, surveillance, and research to find a cure. (For more background on this year's appropriations and other legislative requests for Congress, check out our updated advocacy fact sheet at bit.ly/hepb2020 and additional resources at http://www.hepbunited.org/advocacy.)
You can email your Representative and Senators right from this page! All you have to do is fill out the form below (your contact info is needed to match you with your Representative and Senators), click the "Take Action" button, and then personalize the template messages provided on the next page.
Take Action Today!
You can email your Representative and Senators right from this page!
- On this page, you should see 2-3 different variations of our message - each one is intended for a different target group. These targets include U.S. Senators, U.S. House Representatives, and Current Congressional Champions.
- The messages we are sending to the House and Senate are tailored to where each chamber is currently in the appropriations process, so that our requests are most relevant to them at this time.
- The message to Current Congressional Champions is a custom message that you will only see if you live in the district or state of a Member whom we have identified as a "current champion" - in which case, we want to thank them for their support and point them to general resources rather than continue to push our advocacy asks to them.
- We encourage you to further personalize each message as much as you'd like (click anywhere in the text boxes below to edit or add on), but please do not to delete the links to our fact sheets or other resources that have been included as additional sources of information for Congress Members and their staff.
- We recommend at least adding a sentence about who you are and what your personal or professional connection is to hepatitis B.
- Once you have finished editing each of the messages, just click the "Send Email" button and that's it! The name and address you provided on the previous page will automatically be added to the end of your emails, so you do not need to type this information manually in the text boxes below.
Sorry, we're not targeting any elected officials in your geographic area. But, there are other ways you can still take action!
- Sign the World Hepatitis Alliance's open letter urging governments to prioritize viral hepatitis elimination.
- Check out the resources on worldhepatitisday.org - including logos, graphics, social media messages, posters you can customize (in many languages), etc. - and use these throughout the week to help raise awareness around hepatitis!
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Please share this with anyone else who might be interested in taking action.
Additional actions you can take:
- Follow up with call. Call the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121 to be connected with your Congress Member's offices. You can also find their DC office phone numbers using this legislator look-up tool. (Click "more details" under a person's name to see their phone number.) If possible, ask to speak with the Health Legislative Assistant, or see if you can leave them a message.
- Sign the World Hepatitis Alliance's open letter urging governments to prioritize viral hepatitis elimination.
- Check out the resources on worldhepatitisday.org - including logos, graphics, social media messages, posters you can customize (in many languages), etc. - and use these throughout the week to help raise awareness around hepatitis!