TAG recognizes Gilead Science’s announcement that it has issued six voluntary licenses to produce generic lenacapavir for distribution within 120 high HIV burden countries as a first step toward broadening access to this potent preventive drug for millions of people at risk of HIV.
Treatment Action Group (TAG) welcomes the news that the long-acting injectable HIV capsid inhibitor lenacapavir has proven efficacious at preventing HIV acquisition among young women and adolescent girls in South Africa and Uganda.
Microarray patches (MAPs) are arrays of microneedles that stick to your skin like a bandage, offering a noninvasive mechanism for drug administration.
Rifapentine, an off-patent drug that's been around since the 1960s, is the cornerstone of the two most effective regimens to prevent tuberculosis (TB) in people at risk of the disease.
Treatment Action Group (TAG) welcomes the tuberculosis (TB) data presented at the 2024 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI). The highlights presented here cover the results of several phase II TB prevention and treatment trials.
TAG, Partners In Health, and MSF Access Campaign sent an open letter to Johnson & Johnson requesting detailed responses to questions and concerns regarding the deal with the Global Drug Facility to supply generic bedaquiline to low- and middle-income countries that excludes South Africa, 10 EECA countries, and China.
After over a year of sustained advocacy from the TB community demanding that Johnson & Johnson publicly commit to non-enforcement or withdrawal of secondary patents on bedaquiline filed in 66 low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)...
In 2020, health authorities and drug manufacturers identified a type of chemical impurity called nitrosamines in rifampicin and rifapentine, two essential medicines used in the treatment and prevention of TB. TAG and IMPAACT4TB project partners have developed several materials to…
The Indian Patent Office has taken a laudable step that will pave the way for generic manufacturing of a key tuberculosis (TB) drug.
TAG and a coalition of civil society activists, public health leaders, and researchers acting in solidarity with communities affected by tuberculosis sent an open letter to Johnson & Johnson calling on the company to publicly commit to withdraw and not…