TAG was among thirteen organizations that cosponsored this Congressional briefing held on July 9, 2025. Briefing materials and presentations are available for download below.

Briefing document: Lifesaving NIH Infectious Disease Research

Available presentations and statements:

Introduction
Lynda Dee, AIDS Action Baltimore (AAB), Matt Rose (co- moderator), Human Rights Campaign (HRC)

NIH HIV and ID Treatment Research
Joseph J. Eron, Jr., MD, Chair and Co-Principal Investigator, ACTG Clinical Trials Network, Herman and Louise Smith Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Chief, Division of Infectious Disease, Director, Clinical Core, University of North Carolina (UNC) Center for AIDS Research, at UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine

NIH HIV Prevention Research
Myron S. Cohen, MD, Co-Director of the HIV Prevention Trials Network, Member of the National Academy of Medicine, Yeargan-Bate Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, Director of the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Disease, and Associate Vice Chancellor for Global Health.

HIV in Babies and Adolescents
Deborah Persaud, MD, Chair, IMPAACT HIV Cure Scientific Committee, Principal Investigator, Pediatric Adolescent Virus Elimination (PAVE), Professor of Pediatrics and Division Director of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.

Tuberculosis and HIV research and the NIH Centers for AIDS Research
Richard E. Chaisson, MD, Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and International Health, Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Tuberculosis Research, Principal Investigator, Johns Hopkins Center for AIDS Research, Baltimore, MD.

Perspective of an Advocate Living with HIV
Dawn Averitt, Founder and Board Member of the Well Project, Founder of the Women’s Resource Initiative on HIV/AIDS (WRI), and a Former member of Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA).

Written Testimony to the Briefing on Lifesaving NIH Infectious Disease Research: Addressing funding to the National Institutes of Health and the Clinical Trials Networks in the NIAID Division of AIDS
HIV Vaccine Trials Network

Sponsoring Organizations

AIDS Action Baltimore
amfAR
AVAC
Health GAP
HIV Medicine Association
Human Rights Campaign
Infectious Disease Society of America
Latino Commission on AIDS
NMAC
PrEP4All
The Reunion Project
San Francisco AIDS Foundation
Treatment Action Group