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Cover image of publication, An Activist's Guide to TB Diagnostic Tools

An Activist’s Guide to Tuberculosis Diagnostic Tools

July 28, 2020
Dorrit Walsh

Our publication, An Activist’s Guide to Tuberculosis Diagnostic Tools, details the latest WHO recommendations, the array of available TB diagnostic tools, and how these tools should be optimally used in country programs, including to support TB screening and diagnosis among special populations such as children, people with extrapulmonary TB, and people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA).

Ensuring Universal Access to COVID-19 Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention

July 27, 2020
Dorrit Walsh

TAG and the Center for Economic and Social Rights produced this joint publication, as part of CESR’s COVID-19 “Recovering Rights” series of briefs.

Statement on Human Challenge Studies for COVID-19 Vaccine Development

July 17, 2020
Dorrit Walsh

Two recent developments have brought renewed publicity to proposals to conduct human challenge studies to test COVID-19 vaccine candidates: an open letter from the organization 1DaySooner and media reports that Adrian Hill’s Oxford University research group is planning a challenge study, taking advantage of the lack of regulatory oversight of human challenge experiments in the United Kingdom.

Treatment Action Group Statement on New HIV Remission Case Report at AIDS2020

July 8, 2020
Dorrit Walsh

Yesterday, a widely reported presentation by Ricardo Diaz at the ongoing virtual International AIDS Conference (AIDS2020) disclosed that one out of 30 total participants in an HIV cure-related research trial conducted in Brazil has not experienced an HIV viral load rebound for a little over a year (64.7 weeks) after interrupting antiretroviral therapy (ART).

Global Health and Human Rights Organizations Say U.S. Withdrawal from WHO Is Reckless Act That Could Delay Americans’ Access to COVID-19 Solutions and Prolong Global Pandemic

July 7, 2020
Dorrit Walsh

AVAC, Health GAP and the Treatment Action Group (TAG) strongly condemn the Trump Administration’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO).

Webinars

July 6, 2020
Dorrit Walsh

2024 Pre-CROI Community HIV Cure Research Workshop - March 2, 2024 HIV Cure and the Environment: How location informs cure research - Dr. Adam Ward, AVAC, REACH Collaboratory, February 8, 2024 Advancing an HIV Cure – What is Needed? -…

Treatment Action Group Statement on Bedaquiline Unaffordability

July 6, 2020
Dorrit Walsh

Treatment Action Group welcomes the Global Drug Facility / Stop TB Partnership's negotiation of what amounts to a 32% savings on bedaquiline, the backbone of improved, all-oral regimens for treating drug-resistant TB.

2020 Pipeline Report

July 2, 2020
Dorrit Walsh

Pipeline Report provides an overview of research and provides an overview of research and development of innovations for diagnosing, preventing, treating, and curing HIV, hepatitis C virus (HCV), and tuberculosis (TB).

Podcast with Dr. Madhukar Pai: TB Diagnostics Advocacy in the Context of COVID-19

June 12, 2020
Dorrit Walsh

On this podcast, Dr. Madhukar Pai describes the ways that the COVID-19 pandemic has delayed and limited access to TB diagnostic testing, and how all stakeholders must step-up efforts to mitigate these impacts and ensure that TB diagnostic testing is not abandoned in the response to COVID-19.

Long-Acting Injectable Cabotegravir for HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP): Promising Results from HPTN 083

May 19, 2020
Dorrit Walsh

Treatment Action Group (TAG) welcomes the news that long-acting injectable cabotegravir (CAB LA, from ViiV Healthcare) demonstrated a high level of efficacy for preventing HIV infection in cisgender men and transgender women who have sex with men in the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) 083 trial.