Treatment Action Group welcomes the Global Drug Facility / Stop TB Partnership's negotiation of what amounts to a 32% savings on bedaquiline, the backbone of improved, all-oral regimens for treating drug-resistant TB.
The English version of this publication updated 2024. Please refer to the earlier versions on this page if you need languages other than English. English version updated April 2020. The updated guide reflects new information from recently completed clinical…
Last week, Treatment Action Group was pleased to receive the World Health Organization’s (WHO) update to its guidance on TB preventive therapy (TPT).
Cepheid is profiteering during a pandemic, with dangerous consequences for countries with vulnerable populations and health systems. New York, March 27, 2020 — Treatment Action Group calls for Cepheid to immediately lower to US$ 5 the developing country price of…
This report aims to make more accessible to community advocates discussions around ethical conduct of biomedical prevention trials in the era of PrEP. In early 2019, TAG, along with Black AIDS Institute and the HIV Vaccine Trials Network developed an…
Our publication, Isoniazid/Rifapentine (3HP) Access Roadmap and Patent Landscape, provides a landscape of patent applications filed by the French pharmaceutical company Sanofi on combinations of two essential medicines used to prevent tuberculosis (TB): isoniazid and rifapentine.
Follow up to our 12/19 statement applauding Indian activists for taking legal action to oppose two patent applications filed by Sanofi in India. This joint statement from Treatment Action Group and OTMeds urges Sanofi to deliver on its promise to withdraw in all countries where the applications were filed and are still pending.
Treatment Action Group (TAG) applauds the legal actions undertaken by our colleagues from the Delhi Network of Positive People (DNP+) and tuberculosis (TB) survivor and activist Ganesh Acharya of Mumbai, with support from the Third World Network (TWN), contesting two patent applications on combinations of two decades-old TB medicines filed in India by French pharmaceutical company Sanofi.
Treatment Action Group (TAG) welcomes the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) pursuit of a lawsuit against Gilead Sciences, Inc., the manufacturer of Truvada and Descovy, the only two FDA-approved pills for pre-exposure prophlyaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV.
The high cost of GeneXpert tests for tuberculosis (TB) leaves open a critical gap in the diagnosis of TB and fails to consider volume of sales and public investments in the development of GeneXpert.