October – November 2018 (Updated September 2024) Examples of media coverage: HIV cure? Major breakthrough made in eradicating deadly virus: ‘Beyond our expectations’ – Daily Star, November 1, 2018 New drug could cure HIV/Aids – Uganda Daily Monitor, November 7, 2018 Maker…
Global activists at the 49th Union Conference on Lung Health in The Hague opened up a pop-up TB drug warehouse to warn about the dire public health consequences of a rushed shift from Global Fund supported pooled procurement of tuberculosis (TB) drugs and other health products to domestic funding and national procurement systems.
GCTA, TAG, and DR-TB STAT developed this letter template to help activists to call for bedaquiline-based, injectable-free regimens in their countries. Please download this template letter here and use it in your country to advocate for the best care possible for people with drug-resistant TB.
This document (not a TAG publication) presents an overview of paediatric TB research efforts already underway and their limitations; and highlights priorities for future research initiatives in epidemiology, basic science, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and operational research.
Letter to Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, WHO, and Dr. Tereza Kasaeva, Global TB Program Director.
November – December 2017 Examples of media coverage: Lung cancer drug may be early clue in hunt for HIV cure – The Independent, November 30, 2017 Cancer drug offers tantalising hope for HIV cure – The Guardian, November 30, 2017…
Global funding for tuberculosis (TB) research reached a previously unreported high of $726 million in 2016, according to a report released today by Treatment Action Group (TAG) and the United Nations–hosted Stop TB Partnership.
The United Nations High Level Meeting (HLM) on TB is rapidly approaching. The U.N. HLM on TB will take place on September 26, 2018 during the second day of general debate of the General Assembly at its seventy-third session…
TAG and partners hosted this webinar on October 3, 2017. Speakers included Lynette Mabote, AIDS & Rights Alliance for Southern Africa; Lindiwe Mvusi, Department of Health, Republic of South Africa; Stephen Wanjala, MSF; and Wayne van Gemert, Global Drug Facility…
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).