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TAGline Winter 2013

January 29, 2013
Chad Cipiti

Grief Is a Sword: A Eulogy for Spencer Cox; A Global Plan to End AIDS Everywhere but at Home ; On the Edge: Uncertainty Grows over HIV Budgets; Data Deluge at AASLD; Beyond ARVs: Advocacy for Non-AIDS Disease Management; TB Zeroes Campaign Achieves Big Win; TAG Welcomes the FDA Approval of the First New Drug for TB in 40 Years; Help Support Inclusion of Pegylated Interferon on the World Health Organization’s Essential Medicines List; Guide to Clinical Trials for People with Hepatitis C.

In Memoriam – Patrick Spencer Cox

December 18, 2012
Chad Cipiti

Today in New York, Spencer Cox died. He was one of the most brilliant of the first generation of AIDS treatment activists.

2012 TAG Update

December 11, 2012
Chad Cipiti

TAG’s annual review of progress we’ve made on the the fight to end HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, and Tuberculosis.

Micardis Sign-on Letter to Boehringer Ingelheim

November 8, 2012
Chad Cipiti

Letter urging the company to reconsider its negative decision to provide free telmisartan (Micardis) and matching placebo to the AIDS Clinical Trials Group so that it may move forward with Study A5317.

Cure-Related Research at AIDS 2012

October 3, 2012
Chad Cipiti

By Richard Jefferys At the recent International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C. (AIDS 2012), the research effort to develop a cure for HIV infection attained a higher profile than it ever has in the past. At a press conference on…

Only Stronger U.S. Leadership Can End the AIDS Epidemic

October 3, 2012
Chad Cipiti

Existing treatment and prevention techniques could prevent millions of new HIV infections and deaths from AIDS—but only if Obama sustains funding. By Mark Harrington This article was first published on 24 July 2012 in theAtlantic.com. Four years ago, President Obama's…

TAG at 20 – Part II: On a Darkling Plain—The Years of Despair

October 3, 2012
Chad Cipiti

Before the Discovery of HAART By Mark Harrington And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night. —Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach”[i] This is the second in…

TAGline Fall 2012

October 3, 2012
Chad Cipiti

TAG at 20 – Part II: On a Darkling Plain—The Years of Despair; Only Stronger U.S. Leadership Can End the AIDS Epidemic; Cure-Related Research at AIDS 2012; The Future of TB in the United States: Going, or Growing?; Getting to Zero—Join the Movement!; GeneXpert Rapid TB Test Price Reduced in Historic Agreement

Mark Harrington Tribute to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

September 8, 2012
Dorrit Walsh

In 2012, the Fulbright Association presented its J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF); the first time this was awarded to an organization, not an individual. Treatment Action Group’s executive director, Mark Harrington, delivered this…

HIV i-Base/Treatment Action Group 2012 Pipeline Report Reveals Deep Gaps between Scientific Promise and Program Delivery

July 21, 2012
Chad Cipiti

On the eve of the XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C., a new report by HIV i-Base (U.K.) and Treatment Action Group (TAG) (U.S.) reveals the deepening gulf between new scientific advances that make it possible to prevent, treat, and in some cases cure people living with HIV, hepatitis C virus (HCV), and tuberculosis (TB), and access to these where they are most needed.