Global Archives – Page 23 of 25 – Treatment Action Group

No Time to Lose: G20 Leaders Must Fund R&D to End TB

March 23, 2017
Chad Cipiti

In advance of World TB Day, Treatment Action Group (TAG), Health GAP, AIDS-Free World and Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) urge G20 member states to commit by the July 7, 2017 G20 summit to increase annual funding contributions to USD $1.17 billion for research and development (R&D) to set us on the path to end tuberculosis (TB).

Pre-CROI Community HIV Cure Research Workshop 2017

February 12, 2017
Chad Cipiti

On Sunday February 12, 2017 in Seattle, the AIDS Treatment Activists Coalition, AVAC, the DARE Community Advisory Board, the defeatHIV Community Advisory Board, European AIDS Treatment Group, Project Inform and TAG co-sponsored a community workshop on HIV cure research.

Story: Nigerian Scientists Claim to Have Discovered Complete Cure for HIV/AIDS

February 10, 2017
Dorrit Walsh

December 2016 – February 2017, Updated May 2017 Examples of media coverage: Nigerian Scientists Claim To Have Discovered Complete Cure For HIV/AIDS – Nigerian Bulletin, December 13, 2016 Michael Okpara varsity discovers new cure of HIV/AIDS – Daily Trust, February…

HCV Genotypes

February 6, 2017
Chad Cipiti

February 2017 What are genotypes? A genotype is a way to put the hepatitis C virus (HCV) into categories based on similar genes. It’s important to know and understand HCV genotypes because different genotypes respond differently to medicines that treat…

Public Health Groups Welcome Johns Hopkins University and Medicines Patent Pool Agreement for Development of Promising New TB Drug

January 24, 2017
Chad Cipiti

Public health groups welcomed today’s announcement by Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) of an agreement that could expedite the research and development of a promising tuberculosis drug and lead to improved treatment options for people living with TB.

The Pharma Shell Game

December 12, 2016
Chad Cipiti

The global system for funding drug development socializes the costs and privatizes the pro ts though a system of taxpayer-funded research, legal corporate tax havens, and intellectual property registrations to guarantee exclusive access to markets and to reduce corporate taxes, while selling identical formulations at wildly different prices.

Story: Israeli Scientists See Breakthrough in AIDS Cure

November 15, 2016
Dorrit Walsh

November 2016 Examples of media coverage: Israeli scientists see breakthrough in AIDS cure – The Times of Israel, November 1, 2016 Israeli researchers offer some hope for HIV carriers – Arutz Sheva 7, November 1, 2016 Israeli research successful in…

TAG Responds to the Release of the World Health Organization’s 2016 Global Tuberculosis Report

October 13, 2016
Chad Cipiti

TB is a preventable, curable disease, and the dismal lack of progress against reversing the TB epidemic is unacceptable. Last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that TB had overtaken HIV as the world's leading cause of death from an infectious disease, and this year the WHO numbers show that the TB epidemic is larger than previously estimated

Story: British Scientists on Brink of HIV Cure

October 10, 2016
Dorrit Walsh

October 2016 Examples of media coverage: British scientists on brink of HIV cure (headline now corrected to “British scientists hopeful for HIV cure”) – The Sunday Times, October 2, 2016 (registration required) HIV cure close after disease ‘vanishes’ from blood of British man (now…

Open Letter: Hosting Union World Conferences on Lung Health in High-Burden Countries

August 24, 2016
Dorrit Walsh

Letter from individuals and organizations, including TAG, expressing concern over selection of host cities to host World Conferences on Lung Health.