TB is a preventable, curable disease, and the dismal lack of progress against reversing the TB epidemic is unacceptable. Last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that TB had overtaken HIV as the world's leading cause of death from an infectious disease, and this year the WHO numbers show that the TB epidemic is larger than previously estimated
October 2016 Examples of media coverage: British scientists on brink of HIV cure (headline now corrected to “British scientists hopeful for HIV cure”) – The Sunday Times, October 2, 2016 (registration required) HIV cure close after disease ‘vanishes’ from blood of British man (now…
Letter from individuals and organizations, including TAG, expressing concern over selection of host cities to host World Conferences on Lung Health.
April 2016 The Daily Telegraph article and examples of the media coverage that followed it: Cure for HIV possible within three years as scientists snip virus from cells– The Daily Telegraph, April 1, 2016. Update April 6, 2016: After receiving complaints, The Daily…
On Sunday February 21, 2016 in Boston, the AIDS Treatment Activists Coalition, AVAC, European AIDS Treatment Group, Project Inform and TAG co-sponsored a community workshop on HIV cure research. The workshop has become an annual event that takes place immediately…
October 2015 Examples of media coverage: New Breakthrough May Lead to HIV Relapse Cure – Indo-Asian News Service, October 11, 2015 HIV breakthrough could lead to a CURE: Scientists identify markers on immune cells that ‘predict who can stop drug…
May 2015 Examples of media coverage: Gilead Sciences (GILD) May Have Found A Cure For HIV! – CNA Finance, May 18, 2015 This Experimental Drug Could Finally Cure HIV – Motley Fool, May 18, 2015 Original source: Unknown, possibly a…
March 2015 Examples of media coverage: FDA Gives HIV ‘Functional Cure’ Go-Ahead For Human Trials: Functional HIV Cure Step Closer To Reality With FDA Approval Of Clinical Human Trials – Medical Daily, March 10, 2015 Study of potential HIV ‘cure’ wins…
November 2014 Examples of media coverage: Primer Paciente “Curado” del VIH por un Trasplante de Sangre de Cordón Umbilical – El Mundo, November 6, 2014 Doctors “Cure” HIV Patient with Blood Transplant – Local: Spain’s News in English, November 6,…
November 2014 Examples of media coverage: French Scientists Find Mechanism for Spontaneous HIV Cure – Agence France-Presse, November 4, 2014 Scientists See Mechanism for Spontaneous HIV “Cure” (Update) – Agence France-Presse, November 4, 2014 HIV: Genetic Mutation Leads to Two Men…