Now is the time to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic in America’s southern states. Over the past four years, innovative Ending the Epidemic (EtE) plans have emerged in several jurisdictions across the nation following New York’s 2014 announcement that it will…
TAG comments submitted to the Strategic Planning Team at the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation regarding the HHS Strategic Plan FY 2018-2022. The HHS Strategic Plan should set a precedent for reducing the burden of disease nationally through its focus on access to affordable treatment, advancement of research, implementation of evidence-based interventions, expansion of populations served, and inclusion of all stakeholders.
TAG’s comments on the Divisions of AIDS (DAIDS) in advance of the recompetition of its clinical trials networks.
TAG’s comments to the Health Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee, in association with its hearing, “Examining Patient Access to Investigational Drugs,” and the deliberations of H.R. 1020, the Compassionate Freedom of Choice Act of 2017, and S. 204, the Right to Try Act of 2017.
September 27, 2017 – The effectiveness of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) with the antiretroviral drug combination TDF/FTC (Truvada) raises questions regarding the design and conduct of trials of other candidate biomedical HIV prevention interventions, such as vaccines, passive immunization and alternative forms…
Fourteen health and social justice organizations from across the U.S. wish to celebrate the people-powered effort behind UnitedHealthcare responding so swiftly to demands that they improve access to the HIV drug Truvada for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)
Treatment Action Group (TAG) announces the launch of its annual research and development landscape analysis: The Pipeline Report: Drugs, Diagnostics, Vaccines, Preventive Technologies, Research Toward a Cure, and Immune-Based and Gene Therapies in Development.
July 2017 By Richard Jefferys INTRODUCTION The research effort to cure HIV infection has continued to expand over the past year. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced the…
July 2017 By Jeremiah Johnson and Richard Jefferys INTRODUCTION Recent advances in the research, development, and implementation of biomedical HIV prevention—primarily in the form of treatment as prevention (TasP) and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF)/ emtricitabine (FTC) as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)—already…
July 2017 By Tim Horn INTRODUCTION The antiretroviral (ARV) pipeline remains robust, with several drugs, coformulations, and biologics currently in Phase II and III stages of development. The trends are clear: maximizing the safety and efficacy of standard three-drug regimens;…