By Bryn Gay, HCV Project Director, TAG Access to medicines (A2M) activists have become better coordinated, articulate, and adept in responding to pharmaceutical industry shenanigans that threaten access to affordable medicines since the establishment of harmonized global intellectual property (IP) …
By Khairunisa Suleiman, Technical Co-Lead, Global TB CAB and Suraj Madoori, U.S. and Global Health Policy Director, TAG On Sept. 26, 2018, the world came together at the United Nations General Assembly in New York for the first-ever High-Level Meeting…
By JD Davids, TAGline Guest Editor and Suraj Madoori, U.S. and Global Health Policy Director, TAG As the Trump administration makes noise about the high price of pharmaceuticals while doubling down on its commitment to “protect the engine of American…
By Suraj Madoori During Trump’s first-ever State of the Union address on January 30, activists observed a dearth of clear priorities to eliminate HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), and hepatitis C virus (HCV) in the U.S. Science and longstanding bipartisan interest in…
By Erica LessemThe road from Moscow has led us back to New York, home of the United Nations (UN) and TAG headquarters. New York is also home to one of the largest tuberculosis (TB) burdens in the U.S.[1] Incidence in…
By Safiqa Khimani and Mark HarringtonGlobal political will to combat tuberculosis (TB)—once again the world’s leading killer infectious disease—may be increasing as shown by intensified activities leading to the upcoming United Nations (UN) High-Level Meeting (HLM) on Tuberculosis in September…
By Bryn Gay & Annette GaudinoAre we on track with WHO targets[1,2] to eliminate the hepatitis C virus (HCV) by 2030? Andrew Hill, Senior Research Fellow, Liverpool University unveils powerful research that compares 91 countries’ data on HCV prevalence, diagnosis,…
By Annette Gaudino Governor Andrew Cuomo’s March 16 announcement committing New York State (NYS) to ending the hepatitis C virus (HCV) epidemic was the culmination of years of advocacy on a path that paralleled—and is built upon—the state’s nation leading…
By Richard JefferysThe development of highly effective approaches to HIV treatment and prevention—in the form of combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)—stands among the most impressive scientific achievements in human history. As detailed elsewhere in this issue of…