CDC pauses rabies, mpox, and other infectious disease testing amid budget cuts and staffing losses, raising urgent public health concerns.
TB testing is getting faster, cheaper, and more accessible and advocates have a critical window to act. Treatment Action Group's new factsheet breaks down WHO-recommended near point-of-care TB tests and shows how communities can use Global Fund Grant Cycle 8 to finance their rollout. With an estimated 2.7 million people going undiagnosed in 2024 alone, the tools and funding are finally aligned. Now is the time to push for change.
TAG condemns the United States’ war in Iran and neighboring countries. At a time when U.S. investment in public health is being slashed, the Trump administration has chosen to spend billions of dollars per day on weapons used in a war of choice for which no credible rationale has been proposed. Our government should invest in our communities by spending funds that were already appropriated and illegally impounded by the White House Office of Management and Budget to keep people healthy, rather than starting new wars that put the entire world’s health at risk.
TAG condemns the White House’s proposed retroactive $600 million cuts to CDC programs in four states. Because Congress already appropriated these funds, the cuts are illegal and unconstitutional, threatening HIV and public health programs nationwide. Congress must reject these partisan attacks and protect public health funding.
What Could Go Right: Vital Partnerships with Communities and Civil Society for New Tuberculosis Vaccines, written together with community partners and supported by Wellcome, explores the indispensable role of communities and civil society in preparing the way for new TB vaccines and ensuring their success once they become available.
This year revealed how far this administration is willing to go in undermining public health. The White House refused to recognize World AIDS Day. Global and domestic HIV, TB, and HCV programs were directly threatened, and many were terminated. Senior CDC leaders resigned rather than carry out political firings or oversee the degradation of national vaccine guidance. And in August, a vigilante encouraged by political rhetoric fired nearly 500 rounds into the CDC campus in Atlanta and killed a police officer. The President has still not publicly acknowledged the attack.
Behind many lifesaving vaccines is a fragile supply chain that few people ever see. This new TAG report examines how weaknesses in the production and supply of key vaccine adjuvants (an ingredient that enhances the immune response) can create bottlenecks that threaten global access to vaccines, underscoring the importance of greater market transparency, security, and competitiveness among governments, funders, and pharmaceutical companies.
On Friday, RFK Jr’s vaccine denialist-dominated Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted to no longer recommend immediate post-partum / birth vaccination of babies with hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccine.
TAG signed onto this letter sponsored by the HIV Legal Network to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney about the importance of strong investments in health and community systems as they reinforce global health security, which in turn keeps everyone safe.
Treatment Action Group and ANEA Coalition strongly condemn the House Labor, Health and Human Services proposed $2 billion in federal cuts to domestic HIV programs, including plans that would dismantle the CDC’s Division of HIV Prevention and slash $535 million from the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program.