TAG and TB Cab Open Letter RE: Early Access to Bedaquiline
Childhood TB Advocacy Picks Up Steam
by Coco Jervis The neglected crisis of childhood tuberculosis (TB) is finally garnering some long-overdue attention. TAG hosted Forgotten But Not Gone: Childhood TB, a federal advocacy dialogue and strategy session in Washington, D.C. this January. We brought together over…
TAGline Spring 2012
Children with Drug-Resistant TB Make Up the Most Neglected Patient Population
Being Brave: Stories of Children with Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
March 2012 – When it comes to drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB), the global community is failing to “get it right.” Millions of people around the world suffer from this dangerous, yet treatable, infectious disease. Yet, in over a decade, less than…
Childhood TB Advocacy Meeting Presentations
On January 5, 2012, TAG held a Childhood TB Federal Advocacy Meeting in Washington, D.C. The meeting was cosponsored by STOP TB, RESULTS/ACTION, the Center for Global Health Policy, and the American Thoracic Society (ATS). Some of the highlights of the…
Tallying the TB vaccines in Clinical Trials
By Richard Jefferys, with the assistance of Claire Wingfield, Eleonora Jimenez and Javid Syed. 7/1/2011 - The relatively small community of researchers, policymakers and advocates involved in the search for an effective TB vaccine met in Tallinn, Estonia in September,…
2011 TAG Update
TAG’s annual review of progress we’ve made on the the fight to end HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, and Tuberculosis.