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.
A resource listing of articles, reports, websites, and ongoing clinical trials related to HIV and aging.
Some individuals who initiate antiretroviral therapy (ART) experience limited recovery of CD4 T cell numbers despite suppression of HIV viral load to undetectable levels. The most common risk factors for this type of discordant response to ART are low CD4 T cell count at the time of starting and older age.
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.
October 31, 2019 — Civil society and community-based organizations issued this letter welcoming the availability of lower-priced rifapentine, which is an essential medicine for preventing TB. However, while all the organizations agree that this discount is a step forward, they're…
Presented at the 50th Union World Conference on Lung Health, an analysis by Treatment Action Group (TAG) finds that total public expenditures on the development of bedaquiline –– an important medicine for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) –– far exceed those of the originator company, Johnson & Johnson.
Civil society and community-based organizations issued this statement welcoming the availability of lower-priced rifapentine, which is an essential medicine for preventing TB.
This is a joint statement from TAG and Health GAP October 16, 2019 – Although Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s bill to increase affordable access to medicines in the U.S., H.R. 3, offers halting, partial steps to reduce drug prices for some…
by Mike Frick and Lindsay McKenna, TB Project Co-Directors, TAG In an interview with TAG’s Tuberculosis (TB) Project, Marc Destito, Senior Director of Public Affairs and Global Alliance Management at Otsuka Pharmaceutical, provides insight into how the development of TB…
By Bryn Gay, HCV Project Director, TAG and Claudine Guerra, CUNY DOWNLOAD to print this article as a poster (A1 size) The current leaders of the United States manufacture crises, media optics, and catchy sound bites to side step actual…