Division of AIDS Clinical Trials Networks Recompetition for 2020–2027 – Comments and Recommendations from TAG
TAG’s comments on the Divisions of AIDS (DAIDS) in advance of the recompetition of its clinical trials networks.
Submission to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to Report on Sustainable Development Goals and Health
A review of comments submitted by TAG to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in response to a request for submissions from interested organizations and stakeholders for the preparation of its report on Sustainable Development Goals and Health.
TAG Letter to House E&C Committee Opposing “Right to Try” Bills
TAG’s comments to the Health Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee, in association with its hearing, “Examining Patient Access to Investigational Drugs,” and the deliberations of H.R. 1020, the Compassionate Freedom of Choice Act of 2017, and S. 204, the Right to Try Act of 2017.
Advocacy organizations celebrate results as UnitedHealthcare swiftly reverses discriminatory PrEP practices
Fourteen health and social justice organizations from across the U.S. wish to celebrate the people-powered effort behind UnitedHealthcare responding so swiftly to demands that they improve access to the HIV drug Truvada for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)
Sign-on Letter in Response to Critical Shortage of Penicillin for Syphilis Treatment in U.S.
Sign-on letter to Pfizer urging an immediate response to the nationwide shortage of pencillin G benzathine, the standard treatment for primary and secondary syphyilis.
Community Calls On United Healthcare to End Discriminatory Prior Authorization Practices for PrEP Access
HIV, TB, HCV, Global Health and Research Communities Call on Congress to Protect the Fogarty International Center
Dear Majority Leader McConnell, Minority Leader Schumer, Speaker Ryan, and Democratic Leader Pelosi: We the undersigned urge Congress to reject devastating funding cuts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) proposed under the President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 “skinny budget,” released on March 16, 2017. Of grave concern is the targeted elimination of the Fogarty International Center at NIH. This indiscriminate cut jeopardizes life-saving research required to end devastating global diseases like tuberculosis (TB) and HIV/AIDS, as well as malaria, dengue, and Ebola.
LAM PEPFAR Request
February 8, 2017: TAG and partner organizations advocating for the rights of people affected by HIV and TB around the world encouraged the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to support the immediate introduction of the LAM test in all PEPFAR-funded…
Reconsideration of support for impending 21st Century Cures Act
Dear Minority Leader Pelosi: On behalf of Treatment Action Group (TAG), I write to you strongly urging for the reconsideration of your support for the passage of the 21st Century Cures Act. Even as an impending and new version of the bill is set to be introduced by Energy and Commerce Chairman, Rep. Fred Upton – we are concerned that several provisions carried from the prior iteration of the bill (H.R. 6) may continue to undermine public health and jeopardize patient safety. These concerns include lowering standards for the FDA in determining approval for prospective drugs and devices, increasing the likelihood of antimicrobial resistance, to granting extended market exclusivity for new drugs.
Petition to BRICS countries to triple funding for TB R&D
Tuberculosis (TB) is the world’s deadliest infectious disease, and research into new ways to prevent, diagnose, and treat TB is urgently needed. BRICS countries—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—are home to nearly half of all the world’s new TB cases and deaths, yet only provide 4 percent of funding for R&D to prevent them. In anticipation of the 6th Meeting of the BRICS Health Ministers, please join our call for BRICS countries to triple funding for TB research and development (R&D).
Letter to Hillary Clinton on HCV Drug Prices
Dear Secretary Clinton, As a national group of healthcare providers, advocates, and patients dedicated to preventing and treating viral hepatitis, we welcome your recent comments in Cleveland regarding the high price of pharmaceutical drugs to cure the hepatitis C virus (HCV). We are encouraged by the broad support for government action on the high price of pharmaceutical drugs, especially those for viral hepatitis, and to see this issue being directly addressed by elected officials at all levels of government. However, we are writing you today out of concern that your current healthcare platform does not specifically or adequately address the national and international viral hepatitis epidemics. We must work together to raise the profile of hepatitis B and C as urgent public health priorities.