Razing the House of Cards
The discovery of HAART and the push for evidence-based HIV treatment By Mark Harrington This is the third in a series looking back at the first two decades of TAG’s work to speed up AIDS research. In Part I: TAG’s…
Ryan White at a Crossroads
Preparing to defend and reshape a still-critical program By Coco Jervis An increasing demand for services, coupled with significant fiscal retrenchment among federal and state agencies, leaves the Ryan White HIV/AIDS CARE Act-funded program at a crossroads. But advocacy strategies…
Advancing Research, Securing Access
By Mark Harrington Now in its 20th year of publication, TAGline has long sought to inform its readers and TAG supporters of the myriad research and policy challenges we face as a community in the ongoing fight against HIV and…
TAGline Spring 2013
Advancing Research, Securing Access: Now in its 20th year of publication, TAGline has long sought to inform its readers and TAG supporters of the myriad research and policy challenges we face as a community in the ongoing fight against HIV and two of its insidious comorbidities, viral hepatitis and tuberculosis. Many of these challenges are inextricably intertwined, as we highlight in this issue focusing on specific clinical research and treatment-access hurdles threatening progress for all three diseases.
Revitalizing the U.S. National HIV/AIDS Strategy
April 2013 On December 11–12, 2012, in Washington, D.C., Treatment Action Group (TAG) hosted a meeting of HIV advocates, service providers, and researchers from across the United States (U.S.) to review the current state of the national HIV response and…
Funding Scientific Innovation: Global Investments in HIV Treatment Research and Development in 2010 and 2011
March 6, 2013 Advances in HIV treatment research in 2010 and 2011 saw improvement in treatment regimens and strategies, and reinvigorated optimism for finding a cure. In 2012, TAG and AVAC, with financial support from UNAIDS, put forth a collaborative…
Beyond ARVs: Advocacy for Non-AIDS Disease Management
by Tim Horn Fact: If we’re going to make headway in preventing and treating non-AIDS-related health complications among people with HIV, which are very much on the rise and a serious risk to disease-free survival, we’re going to need the…
On the Edge: Uncertainty Grows over HIV Budgets
The HIV community is bracing for impact as acrimonious federal budgetary battles rage on. by Coco Jervis The eleventh hour “fiscal cliff” deal reached by Congress and the Obama administration on New Year’s Eve leaves much to be desired. By…
A Global Plan to End AIDS Everywhere but at Home
The bold, aggressive new plan released by Hillary Clinton once again wildly surpasses in ambition what U.S. officials dare attempt in this country. This article was first published on December 1, 2012, in theAtlantic.com. by Mark Harrington On Thursday, outgoing…
Grief Is a Sword: A Eulogy for Spencer Cox
A brilliant HIV treatment activist, Spencer Cox directed TAG’s Antiviral Project from 1994–1999. He died of AIDS on December 18, 2012. Peter Staley delivered this eulogy at his memorial gathering in New York City on January 20, 2013.