Pharma Lies, People Die: Myth-Busting Fact Sheet on Medicine Development and Pricing
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
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
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…
False Hope: Congress Failed to Protect Your Right to Safe, Effective Medicines
On May 30, 2018, President Trump signed “Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello, Jordan McLinn, and Matthew Bellina Right to Try Act of 2017, or S.204,” into law, after the House followed the Senate in caving to libertarian de-regulation pressure. The new…
In a State of Disunion: HIV, TB, and HCV Elimination Policies and Priorities Under the Trump Administration
By Suraj Madoori During Trump’s first-ever State of the Union address on January 30, activists observed a dearth of clear priorities to eliminate HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), and hepatitis C virus (HCV) in the U.S. Science and longstanding bipartisan interest in…
It’s up to You, New York: Moving towards HCV Elimination in the Empire State
By Annette Gaudino Governor Andrew Cuomo’s March 16 announcement committing New York State (NYS) to ending the hepatitis C virus (HCV) epidemic was the culmination of years of advocacy on a path that paralleled—and is built upon—the state’s nation leading…
New York State EtE Campaign Update: Successes & Challenges
By Jeremiah Johnson The December 2017 release of the New York State (NYS) 2016 HIV/AIDS surveillance data shows that the efforts to End the Epidemic (EtE) in New York are having an impact. In 2014, Governor Andrew Cuomo backed a…