TAGline Spring 2014
NEWS ON THE FIGHT TO END HIV/AIDS, VIRAL HEPATITIS, AND TUBERCULOSIS Spring 2014 The April Fools' Issue: April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four. —Mark…
Emerging Regulatory Issues in HIV Cure Research
The science of discovery comes with ethical challenges in human clinical trials By Richard Jefferys Over the past several years, there has been a welcome invigoration of the research effort to cure HIV infection. The mainstream media has picked up…
TAG’s Commitment to HIV Prevention
By Tim Horn Though the number of new HIV infections in the United States is down from its peak in the 1980s, incidence has refused to budge below its decade-long average: roughly 50,000 American residents are infected with the virus…
HIV Prevention Is the Surest Way to Fight AIDS
ACT UP/NY demands Department of Health accountability at the epicenter of the U.S. epidemic and commits to reinvigorate the national prevention agenda By Jim Eigo and James Krellenstein, ACT UP/NY The authors, James Krellenstein (left) and Jim Eigo, at an…
Toward a Plan to End AIDS in New York State
A coalition of community groups push to end AIDS at the epicenter of the U.S. epidemic Beginning in January 2013, a coalition of New York HIV/AIDS leaders came together to begin a series of discussions to reenvision the state’s HIV/AIDS…
Engagement in Care: A Final Frontier of HIV Medicine
Getting more HIV-positive people linked to and retained in care requires innovation and research By Tim Horn Viral-load suppression remains the holy grail of HIV care. Its associations with AIDS-free survival and a profound reduction in transmission risk are well…
A Commitment to the HIV Continuum of Care
President Obama orders multiagency cooperation to achieve National HIV/AIDS Strategy goals, but without required funding commitment By Scott Morgan If the United States is to effectively move toward the 2015 goals outlined in the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) through the…
An Obligatory Overhaul to Address Domestic TB Drug Shortages
Bold strategies are required to remedy frequent stock-outs and supply interruptions By Lindsay McKenna Drug shortages, especially of tuberculosis (TB) drugs, have become increasingly common in the United States. Over the past year alone, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control…
U.S. TB Control: From Confidence to Crisis
Funding cuts and shifting budgetary priorities threaten tuberculosis gains By Coco Jervis The United States is losing ground in its fight against the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic within its own borders. Sequestration and shifting priorities of Congress and the Obama administration…
Rising to the Domestic Challenge
By Mark Harrington In death one can’t be vocal or witness time and motion and physical events with breath, one can’t make change. Abstract ideas of energy dispersing, some ethical ocean crawls through a funnel of stars, outlines of the…