The Power of PrEP
To mark National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on February 7, Treatment Action Group (TAG) is co-hosting a webinar “The Power of PrEP” in coalition with PrEP4All, Atlanta Black Women, AVAC, and iStrive.
Community Call to Action on Equitable Access to Long-Acting Therapies
The growing pipeline for long-acting therapies and their potential to accelerate various national and global disease elimination goals warrants global community mobilization to ensure equitable access to these therapies.
Risk of Breakthrough COVID-19 Infections and Disease in Vaccinated People with HIV
This fact sheet on breakthrough COVID-19 infections among people living with HIV was co-produced by TAG and our partners the Black AIDS Institute, Southern AIDS Coalition and the COVID-19 Prevention Network.
2022 TAG Update
As we look forward to an end of an extremely challenging year—and past four years—we reflect on the remarkable resilience and impact of TAG, even and especially in these dark times.
Public Comment Submitted to the Advisory Committee on Blood and Tissue Safety and Availability (ACBTSA)
Comment submitted prior to their meeting on November 17, 2022. Comment is in regard to discussion and voting on recommendation related to implementation of the HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act of 2013, specifically pertaining to HIV-positive to HIV-positive organ transplantation and pertaining to the following draft recommendation under consideration regarding removal of the statutory “NIH Research Criteria and IRB” requirement.
TAGline November 2022
This year’s edition of TAGline commemorates TAG’s 30th anniversary, and these articles explore TAG’s work over the years: what we've accomplished, what we've learned, the continuing obstacles to progress, and what comes next.
Community Mobilization to Ensure Health Systems’ Readiness for Long-Acting Therapies
On November 16, 2022, please join TAG, INPUD and AfroCAB for our webinar “Community Mobilization to Ensure Health Systems’ Readiness for Long-Acting Therapies” at 8:00 a.m. EST / 02:00 p.m. CET / 05:30 IST.
Towards Pandemic Equity: Lessons from 30 Years of Syndemic Activism
By Mike Frick and Mark Harrington The articles in this 30th anniversary issue of TAGline grapple with “pandemic equity,” an increasingly common catchphrase in global health. COVID-19 has shown that “equity,” like its cousins “justice,” “fairness,” and “equality,” is one…
Treatment Action Group Statement: U.S. District Court Ruling Allowing Employers to Deny PrEP Coverage Is a Dangerous Attack on Public Health
Treatment Action Group (TAG) unequivocally condemns the September 2022 U.S. District Court ruling in Fort Worth, Texas on the case Braidwood Management Inc. et al., v. Xavier Becerra et al., which ruled that the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that employers cover pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention was unconstitutional.
The LAT CAB Responds to MedinCell and Medicines Patent Pool License on a New Long-Acting Malaria Formulation
As the global Long-Acting Technologies Community Advisory Board (LAT CAB) representing vast civil society networks, and people living with and affected by malaria, HIV, tuberculosis, and the hepatitis C virus (HCV) across the world, we welcome the efforts leading to the development of an investigational long-acting injectable (LAI) formulation of ivermectin to fight malaria transmission, mdc-STM currently in preclinical stage, and developed by MedinCell.