What We Want

We’re happy to share 2024’s edition of TAGline, one of TAG’s flagship publications published almost continually since our 1992 founding. This year’s edition takes stock of the state of the HIV, TB, and HCV pandemics worldwide, and advances bold visions for what a future without them must look like. Securing a world where these diseases are no longer public health crises will demand both incremental and structural change, and activist leadership from below.

The articles that follow offer TAG staff and allies the opportunity to explore the necessary conditions for creating the world we want. The pieces discuss how to win universal price reductions on direct-acting antivirals to end HCV, how to expand access to HIV and TB services for disabled people in Uganda, how countries can protect health through human rights law, and dismantling systemic oppression of Black women. Interwoven throughout each are important questions for health advocates about how to sustain key fights in even the most challenging situations.

At TAG, we know what it’s like to fight for a better world in the face of adversity. We’ve been forced to shift tactics over the years, even as we’ve never changed our goals. Thank you as always for supporting and sustaining our work to end HIV, TB, and HCV.

In this issue of TAGline:

Policy Approaches to Seemingly Intractable Challenges: Global and Domestic Activism in a Time of Divided Government
By Lizzy Lovinger and Mark Harrington

A New Pandemic Agreement Cannot Succeed If It Ignores Human Rights
By Mike Frick and Gisa Dang

From Property to Power: Confronting the Historic Roots of Black Women’s Health Disparities
By De'Ashia Lee

Accessible DAAs Shouldn’t Be DOA: Delivering on the Promise of Negotiated Price Reductions for HCV Treatment
By Joelle Dountio Ofimboudem

Breaking Barriers: Ensuring Access to Disability-Inclusive TB and HIV Services
By Wilson Kutamba and Richard Musisi