2022 Report on TB Research Funding Trends
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
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.
1/4/6×24 Community Campaign Training Materials
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…
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.
Public Health Leaders, Researchers, and Activists Launch Global Campaign to Revolutionize Tuberculosis Prevention and Treatmnt with New, Shorter, Stronger, Safer, Evidence-Based Regimens
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.
Storytelling to Support TB Preventive Treatment (TPT)
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…
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…
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.
Treatment Action Group Statement on Retirement of Dr. Anthony S. Fauci
Treatment Action Group (TAG) meets with sadness the announcement by Dr. Anthony S. Fauci of his retirement as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation, and Chief Medical Advisor to President Biden, effective in December 2022.