TAG and TB CAB Letter Asking for Price Reduction for GeneXpert Machines
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 TB Cab Open Letter RE: Early Access to Bedaquiline
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).
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
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
Children with Drug-Resistant TB Make Up the Most Neglected Patient Population
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.
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.