Empowering Health, Parts 1 and 2
On May 7 and 21, TAG celebrated Pride season by hosting for an essential webinar that addressed the unique health concerns of the LGBTQ+ community, focusing on engaging LGBTQ patients.
Navigating Change: Implementing Long-Lasting Injectable PrEP Treatment and the Evolution of Clinical Protocols
On March 26, 2024, TAG presented this webinar that discusses implementing long-lasting injectable PrEP treatments and the evolving landscape of HIV prevention.
Beyond Intellectual Property: Why Is Generic Treatment for HCV Still So Hard to Get
By Joelle Dountio Ofimboudem and Sara Helena Gaspar Background Intellectual property is a major barrier to access to medicines worldwide because it creates corporate monopolies that restrict supply, keep prices high, and prevent people from accessing innovative health products. However,…
Misinformation and Vaccine Preparedness: The Case for Digital Advocacy
By Erin McConnell A special thanks to Abraham Johnson, for contributing to an earlier draft of this piece Hesitancy around immunization has such deep historical roots that it predates the first vaccine. Before the term “anti-vaccine” was coined in the…
How Rising Anti-LGBTQ Sentiment Harms Public Health
By Kendall Martinez-Wright, Elizabeth Lovinger, and De’Ashia Lee Many people recognize advances the LGBTQ+ community has made in the United States and other countries, including the freedom to marry their partners, sexual orientation and gender identity protections, and the fact…
Are We There Yet? TB Preventive Treatment Beyond TB/HIV Integration
By Lynette Mabote-Eyde and Mike Frick Too often, major scientific advancements against tuberculosis (TB) get lost on the long and winding road of policy translation into practice. TB preventive treatment (TPT) has faced decades of dislocation between progressive global World…
TAGline November 2022
This year’s edition of TAGline commemorates TAG’s 30th anniversary, and these articles explore TAG’s work over the years: what we've accomplished, what we've learned, the continuing obstacles to progress, and what comes next.
Public Health Leaders, Researchers, and Activists Launch Global Campaign to Revolutionize Tuberculosis Prevention and Treatmnt with New, Shorter, Stronger, Safer, Evidence-Based Regimens
As public health leaders, researchers, and civil society activists acting in solidarity with communities affected by tuberculosis (TB), we are dismayed by the continued global backslide in progress against history’s oldest pandemic.
Storytelling to Support TB Preventive Treatment (TPT)
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. The storyboards on this page describe the experiences of people…
Treatment Action Group Statement: U.S. District Court Ruling Allowing Employers to Deny PrEP Coverage Is a Dangerous Attack on Public Health
Treatment Action Group (TAG) unequivocally condemns the September 2022 U.S. District Court ruling in Fort Worth, Texas on the case Braidwood Management Inc. et al., v. Xavier Becerra et al., which ruled that the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that employers cover pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention was unconstitutional.