October 24, 2025
Research in Action Awards 2025
Our Research in Action Awards took place on Monday, October 20, and the video is up now!
September 10, 2025
TB Representative Studies Rubric (TB RSR)
Publication
TAG and the Community Research Advisors Group (CRAG) are happy to introduce the TB Representative Studies Rubric (TB RSR), a new tool that community advisory boards (CABs) can use when designing and reviewing clinical trials protocols. The TB RSR is a 17-item questionnaire that assesses whether TB treatment trials include…
September 4, 2025
Joint Statement Calling for Secretary Kennedy Resignation
Statement / Press
On Sept. 3 20+ organizations — including TAG — signed this Infectious Diseases Society of America’s (IDSA) joint statement calling for the resignation of Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The letter outlines the many ways Kennedy’s “agenda” is meant to undermine science and public health.
July 24, 2025
Treatment Action Group Statement on Suspension of TB Funding Over White House Gain-of-Function Fictions
Statement / Press
Treatment Action Group (TAG) opposes in the strongest possible terms the suspension of at least 22 TB research awards by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) following a May 2025 White House executive order banning “gain-of-function” research.
July 10, 2025
An Activist’s Guide to Diagnostic Tools for Tuberculosis 2025
Publication
The World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for diagnosing TB have evolved along with available technologies and tools that are increasingly accurate, simple, and efficient at detecting TB and resistance to a wider range of TB drugs.
July 3, 2025
Brick by Brick: A Brief Guide to Protecting Your Community’s Health with Direct Action
Publication
TAG’s Senior TB Project Associate, Erin McConnell, created this ‘zine about TAG for Pride 2025. It’s about fighting back, and goes over current threats, action items, and action steps on how to show up.
July 2, 2025
Community Webinar on Tests for TB and Drug-Resistance
Webinar / Presentation
Join us for a community webinar to break down the latest World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines and explore the most effective tools for diagnosing TB and drug resistance.
June 5, 2025
WEBINAR: TB Treatment’s New Frontier: Orienting Community to Long-Acting Injectables for TB
Webinar / Presentation
On June 5, 2025, TAG and WHO cohosted a webinar orienting people to long-acting injectables for TB treatment and prevention. Long-acting Injectables (LAIs) have the potential to revolutionize treatment for TB and other infectious diseases.
May 20, 2025
2025 Comments Delivered at the WHO Director General’s TB Vaccine Accelerator Council
Letter / Comment
These are the remarks delivered by Mike Frick, TAG’s TB co-director, who was speaking as a civil society representative, at the 3rd meeting of the WHO Director-General’s TB Vaccine Accelerator Council on May 20, 2025 in Geneva, Switzerland.
May 15, 2025
U.S. Funding Cuts Threaten 39 Research Sites in South Africa Putting Scientific Advancements and Hard Won Progress Against TB and HIV at Risk
Statement / Press
Lifesaving scientific research on prevention, testing, treatment and care for people living with HIV and tuberculosis (TB) in South Africa is under serious threat due to funding suspensions and grant terminations from the United States (US) government.
May 15, 2025
South Africa’s TB and HIV Research at Risk: A Call to Catalyze Urgent Action by Funders
Publication
Developed by TAG, Médecins Sans Frontières, and the South African Medical Research Council, this issue brief provides information about TB and HIV clinical trials and research programs impacted by U.S. government funding disruptions…
May 1, 2025
LONGEVITY Community Engagement: Perspectives of People with HCV and TB Lived Experience and Healthcare Providers on Potential Long-Acting Therapies
Webinar / Presentation
This webinar will provide a platform to learn about the findings from the Longevity HCV and TB end users and healthcare providers/policy makers surveys, and for community members, especially marginalized populations across the world, to engage with the researchers developing these Long-Acting Therapies.
May 1, 2025
NIH Advocacy Toolkit for HIV & TB Researchers
Publication
The Research Matters Advocacy Toolkit is a vital resource for researchers committed to advancing health equity and biomedical advocacy.
April 27, 2025
Inside the Fight: A Day in the Life of TAG’s TB Team
What does TAG’s work look like in action? Here we step into a day in the life of our TB program co-directors, Mike Frick and Lindsay McKenna, to see how their advocacy for better TB research and policy — made possible by your support — are driving meaningful change to…
April 24, 2025
Magic Mountains of Debt: Sovereign Debt Crises as Critical Barriers to Ending TB and Investing in Sustainable Development Goals
Publication
TAG’s Magic Mountains of Debt: Sovereign Debt Crises as Critical Barriers to Ending TB and Investing in Sustainable Development Goals analyzes the impact of sovereign debt in depressing investments in TB programs, services, and R&D in high-TB burden nations.