Health Equity Considerations

When developing distribution plans within your jurisdiction, consider the following approaches to ensure equitable distribution to populations with health disparities:

• Engage people from affected communities in planning for therapeutic programs and as trusted sources of information about Mpox and therapeutics
• Use non-stigmatizing, plain language
  
• Reiterate privacy of information and how data will be used
  
• Engage diverse partners who are already working with disproportionately impacted populations
  
• Provide information and increase awareness at pop up events and mobile outreach to reach people where they are
  
• Leverage clinical venues that serve people who have historically had less access to primary care, for example sexual health or STD clinics, LGBTQ+ health clinics, and pharmacies
  
• Minimize the use of systems that are first-come, first-served
  
• Implement equity interventions that prioritize populations less able to access therapeutics, (i.e., individuals who are uninsured) even if a first-come, first-served model is used