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.
April 23, 2025
Speed-Up, Scale-Up TB Testing: A Two-Part Webinar Series Focused on the Asia-Pacific Region
Webinar / Presentation
TAG, APCASO, and Diagnostics Equity Consortium (DEC) hosted a two-part webinar series exploring the evolving TB diagnostic landscape and strategies to increase TB testing coverage, with a specific focus on the South-East Asia and Western-Pacific regions.
April 23, 2025
Diagnostics Equity Consortium: Close the Deadly TB Testing Gaps in Asia-Pacific
Statement / Press
TAG is one of the endorsers of this Diagnostic Equity Consortium statement and call to action advocating for scaling up access to diagnostics to address the deadly gaps in TB testing.
April 11, 2025
SURVEY EXTENDED: Scoping Community Interventions to Support New TB Vaccine Introduction: From Grassroots Partnerships to Global Policymaking
Survey now extended until April 24! TAG, with support from Wellcome, is conducting a scoping exercise of community partners and interventions to support new TB vaccine readiness.
April 4, 2025
Tuberculosis Research at the National Institutes of Health – Saving Lives, Shrinking Costs, Fueling American Jobs and Innovation
Publication
This policy brief describes the crucial role NIH plays in supporting research on new products to prevent, diagnose, and cure TB. This research is especially important at a time when new forms of drug resistance are emerging globally, and rates of TB are rising in the U.S. With continued and…
March 28, 2025
An Activist’s Guide to Shorter Treatment for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
Publication
The new 2025 update of An Activist’s Guide to Shorter Treatment for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis lays out what community advocates need to know about WHO-recommended regimens for drug-resistant TB.
March 28, 2025
Community Materials on Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
Publication
To accompany the updated Activist’s Guide to Shorter Treatment for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, TAG also developed three additional educational materials to support community-based and civil society organizations leading treatment literacy, peer support, and community-led monitoring activities:
March 19, 2025
TAG Launches TB Vaccines Pipeline Report
Publication
TAG is pleased to share the latest edition of our Tuberculosis Vaccines Pipeline Report, written by TB project co-director Mike Frick. The report provides the latest information on 17 vaccine candidates under clinical development and summarizes ongoing, planned, and recently completed clinical trials in two comprehensive tables.
March 18, 2025
TAG Defends Continuing Vital TB and HIV Research in South Africa
Statement / Press
Treatment Action Group (TAG) opposes in the strongest possible terms the termination of National Institutes of Health (NIH) research awards and contracts to South Africa, feared following reporting by Science.
February 4, 2025
Letter Urging Congress to Reject All Proposals to Cut Medicaid
Letter / Comment
TAG was proud to sign on to this 2/3/25 letter created by HIV Health Care Access Working Group (HHCAWG) of the Federal AIDS Policy Partnership (FAPP). It’s addressed to Congressional leaders and urges Congress to adamantly reject all proposals to enact cuts to Medicaid, a vital source of HIV prevention,…
January 21, 2025
TAG’s Submission to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Letter / Comment
TAG submitted this this input for the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR), in response to its request for “Inputs for the comprehensive report, incl. new developments, in ensuring access to medicines, vaccines and other health products.”
February 11, 2025
Tuberculosis Diagnostics
Pipeline Report
December 13, 2024
2024 Report on TB Research Funding Trends
TB R&D Report
A new report released today by Treatment Action Group (TAG) and Stop TB Partnership found that cumulative funding for tuberculosis (TB) research and development (R&D) in 2023 reached only 24% of the annual $5 billion funding target agreed by countries at the United Nations High-Level Meeting (HLM) on TB in…
December 13, 2024
TB R&D Funding: Billions Short and Reliant on a Few Major Donors, New Report Finds
Statement / Press
A new report released today by Treatment Action Group (TAG) and Stop TB Partnership found that cumulative funding for tuberculosis (TB) research and development (R&D) in 2023 reached only 24% of the annual $5 billion funding target agreed by countries at the United Nations High-Level Meeting (HLM) on TB in…
December 9, 2024
Cheat Sheets for Tuberculosis Activists
Publication
TAG’s Cheat Sheets for Tuberculosis Activists are designed to help advocates navigate the range of tools in use and in the research pipeline.