Legislation Archives – Treatment Action Group

Civil Rights Groups, Health Advocates, and Public Defenders Celebrate Passage of Legislation to Protect Contact Tracing Data from Law Enforcement

July 23, 2020
Dorrit Walsh

TAG is one of the organizations who supports confidentiality in contact tracing and is applauding the passage of this legislation. As TAG's State and Local Policy Director Annette Gaudino says in this statement, “There can be no effective contact tracing without trust.”

TAG Stands with Safehouse and Opposes Dangerous Policies That Jeopardize Access to Lifesaving Harm Reduction Services

December 3, 2019
Dorrit Walsh

In honor of World AIDS Day, Treatment Action Group (TAG) continues to stand with the global harm reduction movement in support of evidence based, live saving interventions for people who use drugs, including syringe service programs and safer consumption spaces (SCS).

Statement: Truly Corrective Actions on Drug Pricing Will Bring Life-Saving Benefit to Consumers in the U.S. and Globally

October 16, 2019
Dorrit Walsh

This is a joint statement from TAG and Health GAP October 16, 2019 – Although Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s bill to increase affordable access to medicines in the U.S., H.R. 3, offers halting, partial steps to reduce drug prices for some…

Rapid Shift From Global To National Purchase of TB Drugs Increases Risk of Stockouts and Use of Drugs of Unknown Quality

October 26, 2018
Chad Cipiti

Global activists at the 49th Union Conference on Lung Health in The Hague opened up a pop-up TB drug warehouse to warn about the dire public health consequences of a rushed shift from Global Fund supported pooled procurement of tuberculosis (TB) drugs and other health products to domestic funding and national procurement systems.

Letter to President Obama on Proposed FY 2013 Budget Cut to PEPFAR

March 5, 2012
Chad Cipiti

As representatives of organizations that advocate for an evidence-based and robust response to global AIDS, we respond to your fiscal year 2013 budget request for the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)—the flagship bilateral AIDS program—with shock and dismay.