Presented at the 50th Union World Conference on Lung Health, an analysis by Treatment Action Group (TAG) finds that total public expenditures on the development of bedaquiline –– an important medicine for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) –– far exceed those of the originator company, Johnson & Johnson.
Civil society and community-based organizations issued this statement welcoming the availability of lower-priced rifapentine, which is an essential medicine for preventing TB.
Letter from Organizations and Individuals to Cepheid asking them to reduce the price of Xpert MTB/RIF and Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra cartridges to US $5, inclusive of service and maintenance.
Access to quality diagnosis, treatment, and prevention for tuberculosis (TB) is a human right. Are the necessary tests, treatments, vaccines, services and policies available where you live or work? This new checklist from Treatment Action Group (TAG) lays out simply…
TAG's TB Activist Toolkits provide fundamental information about tuberculosis (TB) in order to strengthen global advocacy and understanding of the latest innovations, evidence, and guidance around TB and TB/HIV. These toolkits cover important base knowledge on TB and TB/HIV, as well…
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.
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.
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.