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After Cuomo Speech, NY Health Orgs Including TAG Warn that Governor’s Health Plan Falls Short

January 9, 2020
Dorrit Walsh

TAG, as part of the Save NY Public Health Campaign, called out Governor Cuomo's recently announced Medicaid cuts and other failures to adequately address health and health equity in his January 8, 2020 "State of the State" address.

2019 TAG Update

December 10, 2019
Dorrit Walsh

TAG’s work in 2019 demonstrated our leadership towards an end to HIV, hepatitis C, and tuberculosis through hard-hitting, science-based activism. Excerpts of the media coverage we received walk you through a remarkable year of TAG’s work.

Full cover image of November 2019 TAGline - Vote your ConSCIENCE: Elevating Health Justic in the 2020 Elections

TAGline November 2019

November 19, 2019
Dorrit Walsh

Vote Your ConSCIENCE: Elevating Health Justice in the 2020 Elections. 2020 marks the eighth U.S. presidential election cycle since Treatment Action Group’s founding in 1992. A hallmark of our activism has been to prepare for each presidential and congressional election cycle strategically, to ensure that whoever is elected, and whoever controls the House and the Senate, is informed about the best scientifically grounded research and policy and research programs.

About the HCV Project

November 3, 2019
Chad Cipiti

Globally, over 58 million people are estimated to have hepatitis C virus (HCV). Despite the availability of all-oral, short-course direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) that treat all HCV genotypes, nearly half a million people die from this preventable, curable infection each year.…

Activist Guide to Hepatitis C Virus Diagnostics

October 31, 2019
Chad Cipiti

The purpose of this new publication is to provide information for you and your community. The Activist Guide aims to provide a deeper focus on diagnosis with updated information about the steps and different technologies involved in diagnosing a person with hepatitis C.

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…

2019 Pipeline Report

September 11, 2019
Chad Cipiti

Pipeline Report provides an overview of research and provides an overview of research and development of innovations for diagnosing, preventing, treating, and curing HIV, hepatitis C virus (HCV), and tuberculosis (TB).

TAG's Erica Lessem and Annette Gaudino being arrested for civil disobedience as part of the "Delancey 14."

Treatment Action Group Joins Collective Call Denouncing the Trump Administration’s Dangerous Finalized Anti-Immigrant Rule

August 19, 2019
Chad Cipiti

Treatment Action Group (TAG) strongly opposes the administration’s finalized rule “Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds.” This rule, which goes into effect on October 15, 2019, dangerously expands the definition of immigrants who are ineligible for admission into the U.S. or adjustment of status to include those who seek basic public services for health, nutrition, and housing.

Low- and Middle-Income Countries Defuse Hepatitis C, the “Viral Time Bomb”

July 23, 2019
Chad Cipiti

June 2013 By Karyn Kaplan As rich countries prepare for a hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment revolution, people in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) remain without access to information, prevention tools, diagnostics, care, and treatment. A growing movement of global…

2013 EASL Update

July 23, 2019
Chad Cipiti

Streamlining HCV Treatment By Tracy Swan Treatment for hepatitis C virus (HCV) is becoming simpler, shorter, and more effective. All-oral combinations of direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) have pushed cure rates in HCV genotype 1 to over 90 percent. Still, we are…