APIC advocacy documents

• Support a $12 million increase in the CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) in Fiscal Year 2013 to help prevent deadly healthcare‐associated infections (HAIs), March 21, 2012
  

APIC testimony before U.S. Congress

• Fiscal year (FY) 2014 appropriations for U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), joint APIC/Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) testimony to U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies, March 15, 2013.
• Fiscal year (FY) 2013 appropriations for U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), joint APIC/Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) testimony to U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies, March 29, 2012
• Fiscal year (FY) 2012 appropriations for U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), joint APIC/Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) testimony to U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies, May 17, 2011
• FY 2012 appropriations for HHS, joint APIC/SHEA testimony to U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies, April 15, 2011
• FY 2011 appropriations for HHS, APIC testimony to U.S. Congress, April 12, 2010  

Letters to U.S. Congress

• Recommendation from APIC and other organizations for NHSN funding during FY 2013, Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Coalition letter to House and Senate Appropriations Committees' leadership, March 29, 2012
• Recommendations for CDC funding during FY 2013, CDC Coalition letter to House and Senate Appropriations Committees' leadership, March 21, 2012
• Request to support legislation addressing the dry pipeline for antibiotic research, Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Coalition letter to House leadership, February 22, 2012
• Request to support legislation addressing the dry pipeline for antibiotic research, Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Coalition letter to Senate leadership, February 22, 2012
• HAI provisions in healthcare reform bill, joint APIC/SHEA letter to Senator Baucus, September 21, 2009
• HAI provisions in healthcare reform bill, joint APIC/SHEA letter to Representative Waxman, July 16, 2009

Letters to U.S. President

• H1N1 Influenza, guidance on Personal Protective Equipment, joint APIC/SHEA/Infectious Diseases Society of America letter to President Obama, November 5, 2009