TPT Community Materials
These free educational materials are designed for community-based and civil society organizations to use to advocate for and teach people about TB preventive treatment (TPT).
Washington D.C. Community Consensus on the Earlier Inclusion of Pregnant Women and Persons in TB Research
In October 2023, sixteen members of the global TB community developed a consensus statement on the inclusion of pregnant and breastfeeding women and persons in TB treatment and vaccines research.
TAG Announces New Board Leadership
Treatment Action Group (TAG), the New-York-City-based activist research and policy think tank working to end the epidemics of HIV, TB, and hepatitis C, made leadership changes at its annual Board of Directors meeting on February 10, 2024.
Health Activist Groups: Defunding UNRWA in Gaza Is an Act of Depravity and Enables a Genocide
We are appalled. As organisations that have historically worked on issues of health justice and access to medicines for millions of people around the world, for decades, focusing on HIV/AIDS, TB, cancer, and COVID, we share the urgent concern and outrage of aid organizations (NGOs) that the sudden decision by global north donor countries to suspend funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) ‘’comes amid a rapidly worsening humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza."
Statement from TAG, Global TB CAB on H56:IC31 Phase IIb Trial Results
This week, the Statens Serum Institut (SSI) and IAVI shared topline results of the phase IIb trial of H56:IC31, a subunit TB vaccine developed by SSI in Denmark consisting of four Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens and the IC31 adjuvant made by Valneva.
Report: TB R&D Funding Perilously Off Track of UN Commitments to End Disease by 2030
A new report released today by Treatment Action Group (TAG) and the Stop TB Partnership has found that cumulative funding for tuberculosis (TB) research and development (R&D) over the past five years is falling shockingly short of commitments.
2023 Report on TB Research Funding Trends
Tuberculosis Research Funding Trends 2005 – 2022, the 18th annual installment of our series assessing the state of TB R&D, is based on surveys of biomedical research funders conducted by TAG with support from Stop TB Partnership.
Submission on the Right to Access and Take Part in Scientific Progress
TAG is a longstanding champion of the human right to science, which we believe entitles everyone, everywhere to benefit from the best available tools to end HIV, TB, and HCV.
An Activist’s Guide to Shorter Treatment for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
In 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) updated its guidelines for treating drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB), recommending a six-month cure. This guide lays out what activists need to know about the new DR-TB treatment regimens, including an overview of findings from…
ACTIVISM DELIVERS UNPRECEDENTED VICTORIES IN TB TESTING AND TREATMENT ACCESS
Three recent announcements of tuberculosis (TB) medicine and diagnostics price reductions access will enable millions more people to receive TB preventive therapy, and to be tested and treated for TB. Announced alongside the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis (TB) in September, these victories across the cascade of TB care were the result of years of targeted, spirited, and informed mobilization from the TB community.