If you care about access to affordable medical tests for all, please sign this petition. I just did! Ask Danaher Corporation & Cepheid to put #PeopleOverProfits by reducing the price of ALL their lifesaving GeneXpert tests to $5 each – to save more lives! timefor5.msfaccess.org

🚨ICYMI, we’re asking you to call your reps to demand more funding for HIV, TB, and HCV in the FY25 budget. Never called your senators or representatives before??? We got you - check out our video below, featuring TAG Gov & Policy Relations Associate Kendall Martinez-Wright👇

The Research in Action Awards (RIAA) is TAG's biggest night! Every year, we honor key leaders in the fight to end HIV, TB + HCV, raise funds to sustain our programming, and enjoy a special evening out on the town. RIAA 2024 is Oct. 17 in NYC. Join us: treatmentactiongroup.org/support-us/ria…

At McGill School of Population and Global Health McGill Global Health Programs McGill Medicine and Health Sciences McGill University, we are truly delighted to announce Mr. Zackie Achmat (Zackie Achmat) as the winner of the inaugural Paul Farmer Award for Global Health Equity! Read about Zackie's inspiring work to improve health equity: mcgill.ca/spgh/about-us/…

Anti-Haitian fearmongering was vile in the early days of the AIDS crisis, and it's vile now. If you care about people living with HIV and TB, fund and support research + services! By the way, HIV + TB are both preventable + treatable. And HIV is NOT on the rise in the U.S.

Check out the new TB Vax ARM T20 policy brief that explores opportunities to elevate the leadership of high TB burden G20 Brasil states in the development & delivery of #newTBvaccines through enhanced multilateral cooperation. 📰 Learn more: newtbvaccines.org/wp-content/upl…

AFROCAB-HIV| Afrocab Treatment Access Partnership, with representation across 12 countries in the African region, partnered with the @SMART4TB Project and hosted an in-person meeting in Nairobi, 🇰🇪.

Sarah Read of NIH gives a historical breakdown of community engagement work from the NIH's Division of AIDS (DAIDS), from ACT UP's storming the NIH for the government's slow response to the forming of the first CAB (community advisory board).

📢 The Global Tuberculosis Community Advisory Board (TB CAB) announced the launch of its new website, globaltbcab.org. Explore the site and learn more about the TB CAB, its members, history and activities. ⤵️ Read about the launch eatg.org/hiv-news/tb-ca…

Join the Diagnostics Equity Consortium and Global TB Community Advisory Board for a virtual study club series on the evolving #TB diagnostic landscape. The first session focuses on the current TB testing gap with Treatment Action Group (TAG) and FIND. RSVP: tinyurl.com/2b5mk63n

FYI - these workshops have unfortunately been canceled due to Hurricane Francine. We've deleted the original post, but want to make sure USCHA participants know. Stay safe out there!

Tom Viola, ED of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS for nearly 30 years, got involved in HIV activism out of fear and anger over the suffering in his community. He'll receive a Lifetime in Action Award at RIAA. More info/tickets here: treatmentactiongroup.org/support-us/ria…

TAG TB Project Associate Teju Dharmapuri Vachaspathi will be presenting at this Global TB Community Advisory Board (TB CAB)-sponsored webinar, "Speed-Up, Scale-Up TB Testing: Maximizing the Impact of Newer and Emerging Diagnostics on Sep. 17. Register: georgetown.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

HIV Community-Based Organizations are Fighting Patent Monopolies on Lenacapavir - Make Medicines Affordable makemedicinesaffordable.org/hiv-community-…

“TAG has sustained itself as a leading voice in the areas of its mission.” Joe McConnell reflects on TAG’s work over his nearly 20-year tenure as admin, for which he’ll be honored with a special award at our 2024 Research in Action Awards (RIAA). Info: treatmentactiongroup.org/support-us/ria…

.HIV+Hepatitis Policy Institute’s Carl Schmid testified to the IL General Assembly on the impact of #PBMs on #patient #Rx accessibility & affordability & the need for state and federal legislation requiring greater regulation, transparency and reporting & rebate passthrough: bit.ly/4dQ4uD7

Silencing the transcriptionally active #HIV reservoir to improve treatment outcomes nature.com/articles/s4156… (subscription req for full text) Nature Microbiology The Ott Lab

No antimicrobial discussion is complete without addressing DR-TB. We must bridge the gap from policy to patient and include DR-TB when discussing AMR. #6MonthsMax #BpalIsMyRight TB Alliance Stop TB Partnership @fasttracktbcure

Second lenacapavir PrEP study: 99.9% efficacy in early results from PURPOSE 2 | HTB | HIV i-Base i-base.info/htb/48539

Support the demands of the global TB community for the development and rollout of new TB vaccines. Join the call, sign the Community Declaration of the 7th Global Forum on TB Vaccines! In Eng, Esp, Fra, Hin, Indon, Por, Rus! 📅 Deadline: Sun, 6 Oct 2024 ✒️bit.ly/7GFTBVcomdecSi…