TAGLine 2025: A Year of Action
TAGLine 2025 documents a year of action as Treatment Action Group defended science, confronted attacks on public health, and fought to protect communities impacted by HIV, TB, and HCV.
New Report Urges Action to Ensure Sustainable, Affordable Supply of Key Vaccine Adjuvants for Global Health Use
Behind many lifesaving vaccines is a fragile supply chain that few people ever see. This new TAG report examines how weaknesses in the production and supply of key vaccine adjuvants (an ingredient that enhances the immune response) can create bottlenecks that threaten global access to vaccines, underscoring the importance of greater market transparency, security, and competitiveness among governments, funders, and pharmaceutical companies.
From Forest to Factory: Tracing the Supply Chains for Two Modern Adjuvants of Global Health Importance — QS-21 and MPL
From Forest to Factory: Tracing the Supply Chains for Two Modern Adjuvants of Global Health Importance — QS-21 and MPL provides a first of its kind analysis of the global supply chains of two key adjuvants used in several of the world’s most important vaccines.
Debt and Its Impacts on TB and HIV Investment
Public financing and domestic resources for health are straining under debt burdens as countries struggle to build up domestic revenues in the face of weak tax systems and volatile markets.
29th Annual Jonathan Lax Memorial Lecture at The Wistar Institute Honors Richard Jefferys
On Monday, Nov. 17th at 6:30 pm EST, Richard Jefferys, Basic Science, Vaccines and Cure Project director at the Treatment Action Group (TAG), delivers the 29th annual Jonathan Lax Memorial Lecture at The Wistar Institute in recognition of his outstanding contributions to HIV research, education and advocacy.
Governments and Donors Must Step Forward to Fund Global, Equitable Access to New TB Vaccines in Development
Treatment Action Group (TAG) welcomes the report published today by the World Health Organization TB Vaccine Accelerator Council on how to finance global, equitable access to new TB vaccines.
Open Letter to Canadian PM Mark Carney and Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand
TAG signed onto this letter sponsored by the HIV Legal Network to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney about the importance of strong investments in health and community systems as they reinforce global health security, which in turn keeps everyone safe.
Research in Action Awards 2025
Our Research in Action Awards took place on Monday, October 20, and the video is up now!
TAG’s Recommendations to NIAID on the Future of the HIV Clinical Trials Networks
In March 2025, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) began soliciting comments on the future of the four Division of AIDS (DAIDS)-sponsored HIV clinical research networks: ACTG, IMPAACT, HPTN, and HVTN.
Joint Statement: Activists Demand $40-a-Year Generic Price for Breakthrough HIV Prevention Drug Be Made Available to All Low- and Middle Income Countries
A global coalition reacted to two deals announced today to make long acting lenacapavir (LEN-LA), a 6 monthly HIV PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) injection that provides virtually 100% protection against HIV infection, at $40 per person per year in 2027.