These links need to be strengthened or new patterns of collaboration need to be developed. Health advocacy groups also need to work together to combat global health problems, and not act as completely separate entities. Collaboration can occur in many ways, but it needs to happen. In their first year, it met with various agencies and formed important contacts. It now plans to try and bring together some of these organizations in an advocacy meeting, the purpose of which is to design a legislative action plan involving the energy and work of all the groups involved.
Agencies can also come together on the implementation of ideas, such as working together on rallies.
The power of numbers is essential in promoting civic change. Communication and collaboration are essential because they further the cause of global health. It is crucial to have many voices speak out against such a formidable problem. People's lives are being taken daily. Even though these people are thousands of miles away, Americans need to understand that we are affected by this problem because we are at risk, and because we should care.