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Statement: Truly Corrective Actions on Drug Pricing Will Bring Life-Saving Benefit to Consumers in the U.S. and Globally

October 16, 2019
Dorrit Walsh

This is a joint statement from TAG and Health GAP October 16, 2019 – Although Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s bill to increase affordable access to medicines in the U.S., H.R. 3, offers halting, partial steps to reduce drug prices for some…

Advocates Debrief on the Science of Daily F/TAG vs. TDF/FTC as PrEP

October 9, 2019
Dorrit Walsh

TAG, AVAC, The Well Project and the Women’s Research Initiative (WRI) co-convened this webinar on Monday, October 7. It was the first in a two-part series, responding to advocates’ desire to better understand the research to date on F/TAF as…

Following Restricted FDA Approval of Descovy As PrEP, TAG Calls on Gilead to Immediately Partner with Community for Research on Vaginal Exposure

October 8, 2019
Dorrit Walsh

TAG laments that development for the latest oral HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) left out cisgender women and transgender men, but welcomes the accountability provided—albeit belated—by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to rectify this inequity.

ANEA Response to Guardian Article on Gov. Rick Scott’s Rejection of $70 Million in Federal Funding to Fight Florida’s HIV/AIDS Crisis

September 18, 2019
Dorrit Walsh

The Act Now End AIDS coalition is deeply troubled by the contents of Ben Ryan’s September 11 Guardian article “'Rick Scott had us on lockdown:' how Florida said no to $70m for HIV crisis." The article, which reflects four years of investigative journalism by Ryan with additional reporting by Noah Pransky, paints a detailed picture of how Florida’s then-governor, Rick Scott, refused Medicaid expansion and federal dollars to fight the epidemic from 2015-2017

Statement on U.S. FDA Report Highlighting Gaps in Pediatric Research

August 27, 2019
Chad Cipiti

Treatment Action Group (TAG) welcomes a report released last week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that highlights urgent gaps in pediatric research. This report confirms that we are missing critical information necessary to treat children affected by orphan diseases.

Closing the Gap in Tuberculosis Research and Development Funding Briefs

February 20, 2019
Chad Cipiti

In our two briefs, Closing the Gap in Tuberculosis Research and Development Funding: Actions for U.S. Government Executive Agencies and Actions for U.S. Congress, we detail how a funding increase of 0.1 percent, based on "fair share" of research capacity, would close the funding gap in TB R&D, catalyze new public health tools we need to create positive health outcomes among communities vulnerable to TB worldwide.

MDR-TB Treatment Guideline Communication from NYC DOHMH

January 11, 2019
Chad Cipiti

On January 11, 2019, TB Project Co-Director Lindsay McKenna attended a half-day conference hosted by the NYC Bureau of Tuberculosis Control. The recommendations from the conference are included in the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s press release on the event, which you can download below.

Pharma Lies, People Die: Myth-Busting Fact Sheet on Medicine Development and Pricing

December 10, 2018
Chad Cipiti

By Bryn Gay, HCV Project Director, TAG and Claudine Guerra, CUNY DOWNLOAD to print this article as a poster (A1 size) The current leaders of the United States manufacture crises, media optics, and catchy sound bites to side step actual…

Keeping an Eye on Intellectual Property Issues in HIV Cure and Prevention Research

December 10, 2018
Chad Cipiti

By Richard Jefferys, Basic Science, Vaccines, and Cure Project Director, TAG The history of antiretroviral (ARV) drug development offers many examples of compounds that were originally discovered and investigated by publicly funded academic researchers, before being acquired and ushered to…

Getting Rid of the Boogeyman: The Reality of Prescription Drug Price Controls

December 10, 2018
Chad Cipiti

By Annette Gaudino, HCV/HIV Project Co-Director, TAG Do you remember how old you were when you stopped believing in the monster under your bed? How many times did you have to look and see nothing there before you finally believed…