1/4/6×24 Mid-Campaign Report Launch Webinar
On March 27, 2024, the 1/4/6x24 Campaign and the Stop TB Partnership co-hosted a webinar to launch the Campaign’s new report: Getting Better Faster: Delivering on the Promise of New TB Treatments.
Getting Better Faster: Delivering on the Promise of New TB Treatments – A Report from the 1/4/6×24 Campaign
This report marks the midway point of the 1/4/6x24 Campaign, which calls for the universal implementation of best available TB regimens — as little as one month or once weekly for TB prevention, four months for drug-susceptible TB, and six months for drug-resistant TB — by the end of 2024.
Open letter: Requesting Clarification on the Recent Deal on Generic Bedaquiline Supply
TAG, Partners In Health, and MSF Access Campaign sent an open letter to Johnson & Johnson requesting detailed responses to questions and concerns regarding the deal with the Global Drug Facility to supply generic bedaquiline to low- and middle-income countries that excludes South Africa, 10 EECA countries, and China.
Open Letter: Urgent Action Necessary for Equitable Access to Bedaquiline in All Countries with High Burdens of TB, MDR-TB, and TB/HIV
TAG and 82 other organizations and 106 individuals representing TB-affected communities and civil society sent an open letter to Johnson & Johnson calling on the company...
SMART4TB CONSORTIUM ANNOUNCES COMMUNITY PARTNERS
Supporting, Mobilizing, and Accelerating Research for Tuberculosis Elimination (SMART4TB) is a five-year cooperative agreement made possible by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), with the assistance of the American people, that aims to transform tuberculosis (TB) prevention and care.
Why Hepatitis C Virus Care Remains Inaccessible
This policy brief explores barriers such as the high-burden among marginalized communities, the complicated diagnostic process, and the difficulties of finding the missing millions of people with HCV in most high-burden countries.
Nitrosamines and TB Medicines Information Note and Patient FAQs
In 2020, health authorities and drug manufacturers identified a type of chemical impurity called nitrosamines in rifampicin and rifapentine, two essential medicines used in the treatment and prevention of TB. TAG and IMPAACT4TB project partners have developed several materials to…
The 1/4/6×24 Campaign Coalition Welcomes India’s Rejection of Johnson & Johnson’s Patent Evergreening Tactic
The Indian Patent Office has taken a laudable step that will pave the way for generic manufacturing of a key tuberculosis (TB) drug.
1/4/6×24 Campaign Videos
All people affected by TB have a right to benefit from scientific progress and to access the best-available short-course regimens for TB prevention and treatment. The 1/4/6x24 Campaign demands that countries and other duty bearers take action to implement the…
For World TB Day, TB Advocates Demand Universal Access to Shorter, Safer TB Regimens
On March 24, World Tuberculosis (TB) Day offers an opportunity to take stock of global progress against the deadliest disease in human history. This year, we face a sobering reality: since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, rates of TB infection and death are higher than they’ve been since the early 2000s, setting back an already woefully inadequate effort to end the disease.