On Wednesday, February 3, 2021, Treatment Action Group, Médecins du Monde, hepCoalition, and the UNITE network convene a virtual policy dialogue among parliamentarians, global civil society organizations, and community leaders to share how COVID-19 has impacted global hepatitis C virus (HCV) elimination efforts.
This policy brief highlights strategies that leverage the COVID-19 response towards improving access to HCV diagnostics, treatment, and care.
Join TAG and COVID-19 Prevention Network (CoVPN) On Tuesday February 2nd at 4pm ET / 1pm PT, at a webinar for community advocates on COVID-19 outcomes in people living with HIV and implications for COVID-19 vaccines.
TAG is hosting a series of webinars on COVID-19 biomedical prevention research in collaboration with the CoVPN. Information and videos from the first two events may be found on this page.
Today’s decision by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to grant an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccine is an important step toward bringing the COVID-19 pandemic under control in the United States.
TAG’s latest report on global funding for TB research and development (R&D), published in collaboration with the Stop TB Partnership, presents new data on TB R&D funding in 2019 and analyzes trends in funding since 2005.
This policy brief discusses how investment in HIV research has profoundly benefitted the COVID-19 response, and advocates that continued financial support for HIV science can both ensure progress on COVID-19 and avoid losing ground—and lives—in the fight to end the HIV epidemic.
This easy-to-use guide is designed to provide journalists and communication professionals the tools needed to ensure accurate reporting and curb any related stigma associated with the novel coronavirus SARS-COV-2, also known and reported as COVID-19. We invite you to use this to inform your own writing and to share it with colleagues and cohorts that work in media and communications.
Treatment Action Group welcomes the announcement that the phase 3 HPTN 084 trial proved that intramuscular injections of ViiV’s long acting cabotegravir (CAB-LA) every eight weeks were superior to daily oral TDF/FTC pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in preventing new HIV infections in cisgender women in sub-Saharan Africa.
Treatment Action Group (TAG) and AVAC welcome today’s announcement that preliminary data from the efficacy trial of Pfizer/BioNTech’s mRNA COVID-19 vaccine indicates a high level of protection against COVID-19. Our organizations urge caution, however, given the very limited information that is available only through a company press release.