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…
TAG and the TB CAB send open letter to Cepheid calling for price reduction for the GeneXpert machines and the Xpert MTB/RIF cartridges.
TAG and the TB CAB support South African advocates, doctors, and organizations in their call for early access to bedaquiline by sending an open letter to the South African Medicines Control Council (MCC).
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…
TAG at 20: Early Campaigns; The Odyssey of Therapeutic Vaccines for HIV; What You Don’t Know, You Can Sell; Does Obama’s 2013 Budget Herald the End of PEPFAR?; Childhood TB Advocacy Picks Up Steam
In recognition of World Tuberculosis day on March 24th, Treatment Action Group (TAG) calls for the re-focusing of attention on the tremendous burden that tuberculosis (TB) plays around the world. TB is a disease of the poor – more than 80% of TB cases worldwide arise in the global south. According to the World Health Organization, nearly 4,000 people die every day because of TB.