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1/4/6×24 Campaign Videos

March 20, 2023
Dorrit Walsh

All people affected by TB have a right to benefit from scientific progress and to access the best-available short-course regimens for TB prevention and treatment. The 1/4/6x24 Campaign demands that countries and other duty bearers take action to implement the…

For World TB Day, TB Advocates Demand Universal Access to Shorter, Safer TB Regimens

March 20, 2023
Dorrit Walsh

On March 24, World Tuberculosis (TB) Day offers an opportunity to take stock of global progress against the deadliest disease in human history. This year, we face a sobering reality: since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, rates of TB infection and death are higher than they’ve been since the early 2000s, setting back an already woefully inadequate effort to end the disease.

TAG Applauds Price Reduction of Molbio’s Truenat Diagnostics for Tuberculosis

March 17, 2023
Dorrit Walsh

Treatment Action Group (TAG) applauds Molbio’s agreement with the Stop TB Partnership, USAID, and the Global Fund to reduce the price of Truenat diagnostic tests for tuberculosis (TB) from US$9 per test to $7.90 per test and to provide quality service and maintenance of Truenat testing instruments globally.

TB Vaccine Development: The Next Chapter Starts Now

March 14, 2023
Dorrit Walsh

On Thursday, April 13, Treatment Action Group (TAG) presented this webinar about important developments in TB vaccine research.

1 / 4 / 6 x 24

March 13, 2023
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.

Call for Expression of Interest: Community Advisory Boards to Support Community Engagement in Research under the SMART4TB Project

February 24, 2023
Dorrit Walsh

The SMART4TB Consortium is calling for expressions of interest from multi-national community advisory boards (CAB) or similarly organized civil society organizations within three geographic focus areas to support community engagement in research in a new five-year research project funded by USAID.

CROI 2023 Tuberculosis Research Round Up

February 22, 2023
Dorrit Walsh

Treatment Action Group (TAG) welcomes the tuberculosis (TB) data presented at the 2023 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI).

TB Treatment Trial Results in Context for Communities

February 17, 2023
Dorrit Walsh

On Tuesday, March 14 at 8:00 am ET, join Treatment Action Group (TAG) and Dr. Jennifer Furin for an overview of key results and breakdown of how they fit into the larger TB policy and research landscapes.

Treatment Action Group Announces Palm Desert Exhibition at Melissa Morgan Fine Art – “35 Years of Art to End AIDS”

February 9, 2023
Dorrit Walsh

Treatment Action Group (TAG) is pleased to present the exhibition “35 Years of Art to End AIDS” at Melissa Morgan Fine Art in Palm Desert, CA. The exhibition features selected works from TAG’s Limited Art Editions Collection and will run from March 17 through April 7.

Community Call to Action on Equitable Access to Long-Acting Therapies

February 1, 2023
Dorrit Walsh

The growing pipeline for long-acting therapies and their potential to accelerate various national and global disease elimination goals warrants global community mobilization to ensure equitable access to these therapies.