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.
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).