Jan 8: TAG meets with NIH Director Bernadine Healy re: the NIH Office of AIDS Research (OAR) legislation. She's non-committal. Jan 16: Hoffmann-La Roche community meeting disrupted by ACT UP and TAG. Shrimp cocktail goes flying. Two arrests. Jan 20:…
Jan 7: FDA approves Bactrim and Septra (trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole) for prevention against PCP -- fourteen years after the first AIDS PCP cases were reported. Jan 18: TAG meets with Genetics Institute about IL-12 study results. (The IL-12 treated monkeys had died.)…
Jan. 4: Memorial service for writer and ACT UP member David Feinberg. Jan. 8: TAG board decides to bring on Michael Marco and Spencer Cox full-time beginning in April 1995. Jan. 11: Activist and film-maker Steve Brown dies of progressive…
Jan 7: NYC: Biggest blizzard since 1947. Jan 18: Baltimore activist Garey Lambert dies of AIDS; Lynda Dee is there. Jan 25: Spencer Cox at meeting with FDA Commissioner David Kessler in Rockville on protease inhibitors. Jan 31: Mark Harrington…
Jan 20: Bill Clinton's second inaugural. Michael Marco and Mark Harrington finish initial draft of OI Report. Jan 22: Crisis at Retrovirus re: on-site registration for Linda Grinberg and sixteen other unregistered community members. They are not allowed in. (Relations…
Overwhelming Array of Variables Confounds Interpretation of Co-Infection Studies Answers Not Forthcoming Estimates of HCV prevalence among people with HIV in the United States range from 30% to 50%, with even higher rates among people infected through injection drug use…
End Stage Liver Disease Emerges As Leading Cause of Death in PWAs with Hepatitis C “While many people with HIV are living longer, more productive lives,” Michael Marco explains,” a good many who are also co-infected with the hepatitis C…
August 2000 Striking Lack of Awareness "People with hepatitis C infection deserve the same tools as those with HIV so that they can become experts about their virus," explains Michael Marco in the introduction to TAG's latest analysis of hepatitis…
August 2000 by Michael Marco and Jeffrey Schouten The CDC should further investigate the role of HCV sexual transmission in men who have sex with men. The CDC should update its 1998 HCV recommendations to suggest HCV testing for all…
Progress Is Being Made But Much Remains to Be Done in the Treatment of Hepatitis C Infection June 2000 Sexual Transmission Controversy Michael Marco, TAG's Infections and Oncology Project Director, had his plate full in San Francisco this past February…