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Treatment Action Group Lauds FDA Approval of First New Tuberculosis Drug in Half a Century

  • Chad Cipiti
Treatment Action Group (TAG) applauds the accelerated approval today of bedaquiline, the first new approved drug to treat tuberculosis (TB) in over forty years, by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The drug has the potential to improve the treatment for multi-drug resistant (MDR) TB, a particularly deadly and hard to treat form of TB that affects over a million people worldwide, and from which only about half of patients who are treated recover.
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2012 TAG Update

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

  • Chad Cipiti
Statement of Mark Harrington, Executive Director, Treatment Action Group to the FDA Anti-Infective Drugs Advisory Committee (AIDAC) Hearing on the Use of Bedaquiline (TMC207) for Treatment of Multidrug-Resistant (MDR) Tuberculosis (TB)
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2012 Report on TB Research Funding Trends

  • Chad Cipiti
Now in its seventh year, the Treatment Action Group (TAG) publishes the latest investment data and analysis on the state of global tuberculosis (TB) research and development (R&D) funding.
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GeneXpert Rapid TB Test Price Reduced in Historic Agreement

  • Chad Cipiti

By Coco Jervis After months of political wrangling, in early July 2012, an agreement to reduce the price of the GeneXpert MTB/RIF rapid test for tuberculosis (TB) was reached between the manufacturer, Cepheid, and pooled purchasers UNITAID, the U.S. President's Emergency…

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Getting to Zero—Join the Movement!

  • Chad Cipiti

By Colleen Daniels Tuberculosis (TB), a 40,000-year-old disease, still devastates communities although it has been preventable—and curable—for decades. In 2010, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported 8.8 million TB cases—1.4 million of them fatal—worldwide. TB is the leading cause of…

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TAGline Fall 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
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