2025 Comments Delivered at the WHO Director General’s TB Vaccine Accelerator Council
These are the remarks delivered by Mike Frick, TAG’s TB co-director, who was speaking as a civil society representative, at the 3rd meeting of the WHO Director-General’s TB Vaccine Accelerator Council on May 20, 2025 in Geneva, Switzerland.
U.S. Funding Cuts Threaten 39 Research Sites in South Africa Putting Scientific Advancements and Hard Won Progress Against TB and HIV at Risk
Lifesaving scientific research on prevention, testing, treatment and care for people living with HIV and tuberculosis (TB) in South Africa is under serious threat due to funding suspensions and grant terminations from the United States (US) government.
South Africa’s TB and HIV Research at Risk: A Call to Catalyze Urgent Action by Funders
Developed by TAG, Médecins Sans Frontières, and the South African Medical Research Council, this issue brief provides information about TB and HIV clinical trials and research programs impacted by U.S. government funding disruptions...
LONGEVITY Community Engagement: Perspectives of People with HCV and TB Lived Experience and Healthcare Providers on Potential Long-Acting Therapies
This webinar will provide a platform to learn about the findings from the Longevity HCV and TB end users and healthcare providers/policy makers surveys, and for community members, especially marginalized populations across the world, to engage with the researchers developing these Long-Acting Therapies.
NIH Advocacy Toolkit for HIV & TB Researchers
The Research Matters Advocacy Toolkit is a vital resource for researchers committed to advancing health equity and biomedical advocacy.
Inside the Fight: A Day in the Life of TAG’s TB Team
What does TAG's work look like in action? Here we step into a day in the life of our TB program co-directors, Mike Frick and Lindsay McKenna, to see how their advocacy for better TB research and policy — made possible by your support — are driving meaningful change to save lives and empower communities affected by TB.
Magic Mountains of Debt: Sovereign Debt Crises as Critical Barriers to Ending TB and Investing in Sustainable Development Goals
TAG’s Magic Mountains of Debt: Sovereign Debt Crises as Critical Barriers to Ending TB and Investing in Sustainable Development Goals analyzes the impact of sovereign debt in depressing investments in TB programs, services, and R&D in high-TB burden nations.
Speed-Up, Scale-Up TB Testing: A Two-Part Webinar Series Focused on the Asia-Pacific Region
TAG, APCASO, and Diagnostics Equity Consortium (DEC) hosted a two-part webinar series exploring the evolving TB diagnostic landscape and strategies to increase TB testing coverage, with a specific focus on the South-East Asia and Western-Pacific regions.
Diagnostics Equity Consortium: Close the Deadly TB Testing Gaps in Asia-Pacific
TAG is one of the endorsers of this Diagnostic Equity Consortium statement and call to action advocating for scaling up access to diagnostics to address the deadly gaps in TB testing.