TB Archives – Page 10 of 48 – Treatment Action Group

U.S. Government Funded Research Brings Shorter Tuberculosis Treatment Regimens to New York City

May 16, 2022
Dorrit Walsh

We applaud the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DoHMH) for its leadership as one of the first TB programs in the U.S. and globally to introduce a new four-month regimen for the treatment of drug-susceptible tuberculosis (TB).

From Evidence to Action: Community-led Monitoring for Access to TB Screening and Diagnostic Testing

May 4, 2022
Dorrit Walsh

Treatment Action Group (TAG) and the Coalition of Women Living with HIV and AIDS (COWLHA) hosted this webinar on how community-led monitoring (CLM) can be used to assess, document, and improve the availability, accessibility, acceptability, and quality of local TB screening and diagnostic services.

TAG Submission to WHO Public Hearing Regarding a New International Instrument on Pandemic Preparedness and Response

April 13, 2022
Dorrit Walsh

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.

Community-led Monitoring for Access to Tuberculosis Screening and Diagnostic Testing

April 7, 2022
Dorrit Walsh

People at risk of tuberculosis (TB) have a right to TB screening and diagnostic testing in accordance with the standard of care recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). Yet, many countries with high burdens of TB have limited uptake…

CROI 2022 TB Round Up

March 22, 2022
Dorrit Walsh

Treatment Action Group welcomes the tuberculosis (TB) data reported at the 2022 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI). This is a summary of major findings — and TAG’s take on them.

The Right to Prevent TB

March 17, 2022
Dorrit Walsh

It’s now easier than ever to prevent TB before it develops into active disease or spreads within communities.

Mourning Paul Farmer, Honoring His Legacy

February 23, 2022
Dorrit Walsh

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.

European Commitments to TB R&D Investments: Promises Made to Be Broken?

February 18, 2022
Dorrit Walsh

In this brief, TAG outlines the pathway the EU can take to scale up support for TB R&D, and advance the many European-sponsored TB vaccine candidates currently in the development pipeline.

TB Vaccine Advocacy Roadmap Calls for Increased EU Funding for TB Vaccine Development

February 16, 2022
Dorrit Walsh

TAG stands proudly alongside the TB community to issue this press statement calling for increasing European funding for TB vaccine development, just before the sixth Global Forum on TB Vaccines convenes in Toulouse, France.

Submission to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Input to HRC resolution 47/17

February 15, 2022
Dorrit Walsh

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).