TB Archives – Treatment Action Group

Open Letter: Urgent Action Necessary to Improve Equitable Access to Bedaquiline-Based Regiments and Achieve 1/4/6×24

January 13, 2023
Dorrit Walsh

TAG and a coalition of civil society activists, public health leaders, and researchers acting in solidarity with communities affected by tuberculosis sent an open letter to Johnson & Johnson calling on the company to publicly commit to withdraw and not…

2022 TAG Update

December 8, 2022
Dorrit Walsh

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.

publication cover, which reads: tuberculosis research funding trends, 2005 - 2021. Cover is blue with "$1 BILLION" in text over various monetary signs from different countries. Logos at bottom are StopTBPartnership and TAG

2022 Report on TB Research Funding Trends

December 6, 2022
Dorrit Walsh

For the first time in history, funding for tuberculosis (TB) research and development (R&D) hit a billion dollars worldwide in 2021.

Response to Tuberculosis Treatment Trials Results Published and Presented During the 2022 Union World Conference on Lung Health

November 16, 2022
Dorrit Walsh

Treatment Action Group (TAG) and the Global Tuberculosis Community Advisory Board (TB CAB) welcome the clinical trials results recently published and presented during the 2022 Union World Conference on Lung Health, which evaluated shorter regimens and treatment shortening strategies for drug-sensitive and drug-resistant tuberculosis.

image that reads: Introduction: 1/4/6 x24 - a campaign to rally energy, political will & funding to end TB

1/4/6×24 Community Campaign Training Materials

November 11, 2022
Dorrit Walsh

Community engagement and mobilization will be key to winning equitable access to the short-course treatment and prevention regimens at the heart of the 1/4/6x24 Campaign. For everyone to benefit from the scientific progress that made these effective new preventive treatments…

Cover of November 2022 TAGline: Reads "TAG at 30" and is an illustration of various protest signs. "Free the Vaccine," "Silence = Death," "Cough Up the TB Money," "Stigma Spreads Disease," etc.

TAGline November 2022

November 3, 2022
Dorrit Walsh

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

October 27, 2022
Dorrit Walsh

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.

Public Health Leaders, Researchers, and Activists Launch Global Campaign to Revolutionize Tuberculosis Prevention and Treatmnt with New, Shorter, Stronger, Safer, Evidence-Based Regimens

October 27, 2022
Dorrit Walsh

As public health leaders, researchers, and civil society activists acting in solidarity with communities affected by tuberculosis (TB), we are dismayed by the continued global backslide in progress against history’s oldest pandemic.

1 / 4 / 6 x 24

October 26, 2022
Dorrit Walsh

Inspired by the legacy of Dr. Paul Farmer, the 1 / 4 / 6 x 24 Campaign calls for the “staff, stuff, space, systems and support” necessary to make groundbreaking short-course TB prevention and treatment regimens accessible to all who need them as a human right by the end of 2024.

Storytelling to Support TB Preventive Treatment (TPT)

October 24, 2022
Dorrit Walsh

Storytelling is a tool that can help build understanding, support discussions between members of affected communities and other stakeholders, and aid in the identification of important issues and potential solutions. The storyboards on this page describe the experiences of people…