CDC pauses rabies, mpox, and other infectious disease testing amid budget cuts and staffing losses, raising urgent public health concerns.
TAG recommends that the AIDS Research Advisory Council (ARAC) endorse NIAID's continued support of a balanced and comprehensive portfolio of basic, clinical, and implementation science — including a funding opportunity to renew its four current networks: the Advancing Clinical Therapeutics Globally for HIV/AIDS and Other Infections (ACTG), the International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials Network (IMPAACT), the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN), and the HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN) or the updated IBPTN.
TB testing is getting faster, cheaper, and more accessible and advocates have a critical window to act. Treatment Action Group's new factsheet breaks down WHO-recommended near point-of-care TB tests and shows how communities can use Global Fund Grant Cycle 8 to finance their rollout. With an estimated 2.7 million people going undiagnosed in 2024 alone, the tools and funding are finally aligned. Now is the time to push for change.
TAG announced today the appointment of Adam Ortega as Communications Director. Adam brings experience in nonprofit marketing and public health and will lead TAG’s communications strategy to expand its reach and impact, and will deepen TAG as a leading voice in treatment advocacy, research, and community engagement on our work to end HIV, TB, and HCV as epidemics.
TAG condemns the United States’ war in Iran and neighboring countries. At a time when U.S. investment in public health is being slashed, the Trump administration has chosen to spend billions of dollars per day on weapons used in a war of choice for which no credible rationale has been proposed. Our government should invest in our communities by spending funds that were already appropriated and illegally impounded by the White House Office of Management and Budget to keep people healthy, rather than starting new wars that put the entire world’s health at risk.
TAG condemns the White House’s proposed retroactive $600 million cuts to CDC programs in four states. Because Congress already appropriated these funds, the cuts are illegal and unconstitutional, threatening HIV and public health programs nationwide. Congress must reject these partisan attacks and protect public health funding.
This National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, Act Now: End AIDS and TAG uplift the truth: Black people are disproportionately impacted by HIV, and equity-driven solutions are essential. Ending the HIV epidemic requires confronting racism, expanding access to prevention and care, and ensuring that Black communities are centered, visible, and supported in public health efforts.
This year revealed how far this administration is willing to go in undermining public health. The White House refused to recognize World AIDS Day. Global and domestic HIV, TB, and HCV programs were directly threatened, and many were terminated. Senior CDC leaders resigned rather than carry out political firings or oversee the degradation of national vaccine guidance. And in August, a vigilante encouraged by political rhetoric fired nearly 500 rounds into the CDC campus in Atlanta and killed a police officer. The President has still not publicly acknowledged the attack.
On Friday, RFK Jr’s vaccine denialist-dominated Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted to no longer recommend immediate post-partum / birth vaccination of babies with hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccine.
Treatment Action Group (TAG) is profoundly disappointed and outraged at the lack of healthcare protections for people living with and affected by HIV, tuberculosis (TB), and hepatitis C (HCV) in the bill to end the US government shutdown.