International Advocacy Update By Claire Wingfield TPresentations from TAG’s recent meeting on universal access to TB and HIV treatment, care, and prevention as well as TAG ’s Funding Trends in TB R&D 2005–2007: A Preliminary Report, are available online. The…
Just Another Initiative? By Sue Perez Despite the constant uphill battle in getting its issues on the table and our concerns heard, civil society recognizes that the International Health Partnership presents opportunities. Launched in September 2007 by UK Prime Minister…
Battling the TB/HIV Epidemic through Community Action Through advocacy workshops and by coordinating and supporting activists' advocacy efforts, TAG and ICW work together to increase community understanding of TB/HIV coinfection and enhance research, treatment, and resources to combat the two…
By Theo Smart and Javid Syed A TAG-sponsored forum in South Africa brought together scientists, policy makers, and community activists to discuss multidrug resistant and extensively drug resistant TB and HIV and to identify steps to address the growing crisis.…
By Theo Smart First published February 2, 2007 on AIDSmap.com. A large multicenter study conducted in Honduras and Brazil has shown that a new and relatively simple technique to detect active tuberculosis (TB), the microscopic observation drug susceptibility (MODS) test,…
By Theo Smart "You are more invested in the DOTS model -- which has failed [to contain] multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) and which is now breeding extensively drug-resistant (XDR) TB -- than you are in saving lives," Mark Harrington, Executive Director…
TAG interviewed 100 institutions and documented the top 40 investors in TB R&D in 2005. Results highlighted in the report showed that new tools including diagnostics, drugs and vaccines received combined funding of $206 million in 2005 -- diagnostics, $16…
A Talk With Gavin Churchyard By Mark Harrington Professor Gavin Churchyard is the director of the Aurum Institute for Health Research, which provides health care services to many mining companies in South Africa but is also an independent health research…
By Theo Smart In all the news and hype about the cases of extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, there has been surprisingly little discussion about how and where many of the people acquired the XDR-TB…
TB, HIV and Viral Hepatitis By Tracy Swan Disturbing reports of overlapping TB, HIV, and viral hepatitis epidemics emerged at the 2005 International AIDS Society Conference. In the newly independent states of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, HIV incidence continues…