January: NIH workshops on long term effectiveness research, studies designed to look at "when to start" and switch HAART, and for long-term side effects. TAG hires Yvette Delph as new Antiviral Project Director. Completion of TAG's AIDS Vaccine Research at…
January: amfAR's Paul Corser dies after a nine-year struggle with AIDS. FDA approves Glaxo's atovaquone (Mepron) for the prevention of PCP pneumonia. ACT UP/Needle Exchange activist Rod Sorge dies. Retrovirus conference, Chicago. Beatrice Hahn presents on the HIV-1's chimp origins;…
January: TAG community meeting at which John Moore gives update on vaccine research. TAG board member Marvin Shulman says farewell to New York life and heads for a full-time residency in South Miami Beach. FDA approves dental dams. Monica Lewinsky…
Jan 22 Treatment Action Group (TAG) splits off from the Treatment + Data (T+D) Committee of ACT UP/New York. Our media debut: Catherine Woodard's "AIDS Hit Squad Seeks More Than Attention," Newsday, 1.22.92. Jan 27 Eight Treatment Action Guerillas…
Jan 8: TAG meets with NIH Director Bernadine Healy re: the NIH Office of AIDS Research (OAR) legislation. She's non-committal. Jan 16: Hoffmann-La Roche community meeting disrupted by ACT UP and TAG. Shrimp cocktail goes flying. Two arrests. Jan 20:…
Jan 7: FDA approves Bactrim and Septra (trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole) for prevention against PCP -- fourteen years after the first AIDS PCP cases were reported. Jan 18: TAG meets with Genetics Institute about IL-12 study results. (The IL-12 treated monkeys had died.)…
Jan. 4: Memorial service for writer and ACT UP member David Feinberg. Jan. 8: TAG board decides to bring on Michael Marco and Spencer Cox full-time beginning in April 1995. Jan. 11: Activist and film-maker Steve Brown dies of progressive…
Jan 7: NYC: Biggest blizzard since 1947. Jan 18: Baltimore activist Garey Lambert dies of AIDS; Lynda Dee is there. Jan 25: Spencer Cox at meeting with FDA Commissioner David Kessler in Rockville on protease inhibitors. Jan 31: Mark Harrington…
Jan 20: Bill Clinton's second inaugural. Michael Marco and Mark Harrington finish initial draft of OI Report. Jan 22: Crisis at Retrovirus re: on-site registration for Linda Grinberg and sixteen other unregistered community members. They are not allowed in. (Relations…
HIV Spread Threatens Decade's Tuberculosis Treatment/Prevention Success By Daniel Raymond New Challenges, Questions TB researchers and policy-makers from around the world gathered on 3-5 June 2002 in Washington, D.C., at the 4th World TB Congress (the 3rd was held ten…