2011 TAG Update
TAG’s annual review of progress we’ve made on the the fight to end HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, and Tuberculosis.
We need the Patent Pool to work
The exorbitant price of AIDS medicines, especially antiretrovirals, has been one of the main barriers to people with HIV accessing them, especially in developing countries. As activist organisations we have been at the forefront of many of the struggles to make medicines affordable.
HIV Cure-Related Clinical Research Workshop Report
A cure for HIV will be an essential part of ending the pandemic. In the past three years, increasing scientific momentum has been evident in research aimed at curing HIV infection (Lehrman 2005; Richman 2009; Trono 2010; Palmer 2011). The…
What We Need to Cure AIDS?
By Mark Harrington A cure for HIV is possible: one man, the so-called Berlin patient, has already been cured of chronic HIV infection with an immune system transplant with cells genetically resistant to HIV. After four years, the man remains…
Cure Research Momentum Accelerates
By Richard Jefferys The research effort to discover a cure for HIV infection continues to gain momentum, with several important developments having occurred since the last issue of TAGline. In July, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)…
A Golden Decade of Antiretroviral Drug Development
Success rate for new ARVs entering phases II–III surpassed 32% from 2003–2011 U.S. ADAP Prescribing Practices Closely Match Recent ARV Guidelines by Polly Clayden and Mark Harrington As we were putting together the 2011 Pipeline Report this summer, we decided…
President Obama’s Disappointing 2011 Budget Presents Sharp Gap Between Needs and Funds Available
By Coco Jervis and Sue Perez Negligible Increases for AIDS, TB, Viral Hepatitis Treatment and Research On Monday, February 1, 2010, President Barack Obama unveiled his fiscal year (FY) 2011 budget to the U.S. Congress. Global health programs were allocated…
TAG Goes to Cuba
by Coco Jervis Cuba boasts model health outcomes but at what costs to human rights? In November 2009 TAG’s senior policy associate, Coco Jervis, attended the Global Forum for Health Research meeting in Havana, Cuba, under a special license that…
As with HIV Treatment, Botswana Leads the Way with TB Prevention
By Javid Syed BOTUSA study strongly supports continuous preventive IPT for people with HIV Tuberculosis (TB) remains the leading cause of death among people living with HIV. The World Health Organization’s 2009 report Global Tuberculosis Control: Epidemiology, Strategy, Financing reported…