This article, Infections Post-inequalities: Realizing the End of Tuberculosis Through Equitable Economic Orders, explores TB as a proxy metric for the failure to dismantle colonial structures in global health and to realize the rights to health and science. Fundamentally, the…
In September, TAG hosted a free movie screening of "How to Survive a Plague" followed by an activist panel at the Housing Works Bookstore. David France's documentary "How to Survive a Plague" tells the story of how AIDS activists taught…
Storytelling is a tool that can help build understanding, support discussions between members of affected communities and other stakeholders, and aid in the identification of important issues and potential solutions. These storyboards follow three individuals journeys through diagnosis, treatment and care, and the barriers they face.
Treatment Action Group (TAG) has submitted formal comments opposing a proposed rule from the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that would overhaul how federal research grants are awarded and managed. Under the proposed rule changes, scientific experts would still review research applications, but political appointees would have final authority to approve, deny, or cancel awards based on alignment with the administration's priorities.
This year marks our 6th Annual Pride Health Fair — a necessary act of political resistance in response to attacks on healthcare, LGBTQIA+ communities, and human dignity. As healthcare becomes unaffordable, this event remains a opportunity to access care while building community power.
The White House Office Of Management and Budget (OMB) under the direction of Russell Vought is seeking a regulatory blessing to use Federal grant funding as a tool for political extortion, violation of due process, and further undermining of scientific integrity. Targets include scientists, institutions, organizations, States, cities, and other recipients who might fail an extreme right wing, Christian nationalist, anti-science political litmus test.
Forty-five years ago the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a brief report describing five cases of a rare pneumonia among young gay men in Los Angeles. The report occupied just a few paragraphs in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). No one reading it could have known that it marked the beginning of one of the deadliest epidemics in modern history.
The Promise and Potential of Economic Reforms for Health The collapse of global health aid in 2025 revealed the fragility of health financing. Despite successes against TB and HIV in recent years, health aid from bilateral and multilateral donors has…
CDC pauses rabies, mpox, and other infectious disease testing amid budget cuts and staffing losses, raising urgent public health concerns.
TAG recommends that the AIDS Research Advisory Council (ARAC) endorse NIAID's continued support of a balanced and comprehensive portfolio of basic, clinical, and implementation science — including a funding opportunity to renew its four current networks: the Advancing Clinical Therapeutics Globally for HIV/AIDS and Other Infections (ACTG), the International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials Network (IMPAACT), the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN), and the HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN) or the updated IBPTN.