2021 Annual Report
This year we celebrate the unending dedication and accomplishments of TAG’s staff. They persevered through the challenges of an ongoing pandemic in 2021 to find new ways to carry out our work.
Treatment Action Group Mourns Urvashi Vaid, Celebrates Her Life and Legacy
Treatment Action Group (TAG) today mourns the premature loss of transformative LGBTQ and AIDS activist Urvashi Vaid, formerly executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (now the National LGBTQ Task Force) at the height of the U.S. AIDS crisis in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and peerless leader of the LBGTQ movement for many years thereafter.
U.S. Government Funded Research Brings Shorter Tuberculosis Treatment Regimens to New York City
We applaud the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DoHMH) for its leadership as one of the first TB programs in the U.S. and globally to introduce a new four-month regimen for the treatment of drug-susceptible tuberculosis (TB).
From Evidence to Action: Community-led Monitoring for Access to TB Screening and Diagnostic Testing
Treatment Action Group (TAG) and the Coalition of Women Living with HIV and AIDS (COWLHA) hosted this webinar on how community-led monitoring (CLM) can be used to assess, document, and improve the availability, accessibility, acceptability, and quality of local TB screening and diagnostic services.
TAG Submission to WHO Public Hearing Regarding a New International Instrument on Pandemic Preparedness and Response
At the first of these two public hearings TAG submitted the following statement with six reasons why the new international instrument must explicitly acknowledge the right to science as a central guiding framework.
Community-led Monitoring for Access to Tuberculosis Screening and Diagnostic Testing
People at risk of tuberculosis (TB) have a right to TB screening and diagnostic testing in accordance with the standard of care recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). Yet, many countries with high burdens of TB have limited uptake…
CROI 2022 TB Round Up
Treatment Action Group welcomes the tuberculosis (TB) data reported at the 2022 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI). This is a summary of major findings — and TAG’s take on them.
The Right to Prevent TB
It’s now easier than ever to prevent TB before it develops into active disease or spreads within communities.
Mourning Paul Farmer, Honoring His Legacy
TAG’s staff and board of directors are filled with grief at the premature death of Dr. Paul Farmer, who illuminated and changed our world with his combination of passion, intelligence, solidarity with the poor, and determined will for social justice.
European Commitments to TB R&D Investments: Promises Made to Be Broken?
In this brief, TAG outlines the pathway the EU can take to scale up support for TB R&D, and advance the many European-sponsored TB vaccine candidates currently in the development pipeline.