Save the date for Tuesday, November 16, 2021! TAG’s 2021 Research in Action Awards will honor some of the best and brightest activists, scientists, and leaders in the fight to end HIV, tuberculosis, and hepatitis C across the U.S. and around the world. This year we’ll once again gather virtually to ensure this year’s event is safe and open for participation to our allies and friends across the U.S. and world.
In response to this morning's announcement by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC DOHMH) that the DOHMH would open a temporary monkeypox vaccination clinic at the Chelsea Sexual Health Clinic in New York, Treatment Action Group's Executive Director, Mark Harrington, and TAG HIV Project Director Riko A. Boone, MSW, MPH, MA, said:
This year we celebrate the unending dedication and accomplishments of TAG’s staff. They persevered through the challenges of an ongoing pandemic in 2021 to find new ways to carry out our work.
Treatment Action Group (TAG) today mourns the premature loss of transformative LGBTQ and AIDS activist Urvashi Vaid, formerly executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (now the National LGBTQ Task Force) at the height of the U.S. AIDS crisis in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and peerless leader of the LBGTQ movement for many years thereafter.
A group of six leading HIV/AIDS and viral hepatitis advocates today released the following joint statement regarding recent manufacturer action against the 340B Drug Pricing Program:
At the first of these two public hearings TAG submitted the following statement with six reasons why the new international instrument must explicitly acknowledge the right to science as a central guiding framework.
On April 15 TAG presented, "HIV Updates From CROI: The Good, the Bad, and the Long-Acting." This free webinar unpacked the most significant developments in HIV research presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infection (CROI), and what they mean for communities affected by HIV.
TAG’s staff and board of directors are filled with grief at the premature death of Dr. Paul Farmer, who illuminated and changed our world with his combination of passion, intelligence, solidarity with the poor, and determined will for social justice.
On February 9, TAG submitted this testimony to the Office of the High Commission for Human Rights (OHCHR) to inform its upcoming report to the Human Rights Council (HRC) on 'human rights in the context of HIV/AIDS' (HRC resolution 47/17).
On February 3, 2022, TAG in collaboration with the International Network of People who Use Drugs (INPUD), Harm Reduction International (HRI), and the World Hepatitis Alliance (WHA), hosted this free webinar.