On Targets and Timelines: With growing recognition that science and discovery have forged the tools necessary to effectively diagnose, treat, and, indeed, eliminate three of the world’s most lethal infectious diseases—HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and hepatitis C—there is a need for greater mobilization and strengthened accountability among all stakeholders.
Ending AIDS as an epidemic is not just the right thing to do for the health of New Yorkers – it’s also cost-effective. We simply can’t afford a status-quo approach to HIV.
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…
On Sunday February 22, 2015 in Seattle, the AIDS Treatment Activists Coalition, AVAC, Project Inform and TAG co-sponsored a community workshop on HIV cure research.
150 organizations called on six pharmaceutical companies to continue funding the vital D:A:D study. 150 HIV Organizations Urge Continuation of D:A:D Study
Today the Ending the Epidemic Task Force, convened by the New York State Department of Health (DOH) at the behest of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, completed its comprehensive, rigorous, and unprecedented Plan to End AIDS in New York State by 2020.
TAG’s annual review of progress we’ve made on the the fight to end HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, and Tuberculosis.
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…
Letter from TAG and others asking for withdrawal of mandatory quarantine requirement for entering the US through Newark and JFK airports who have had direct contact with individuals with Ebola Virus Disease in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.