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Treatment Action Group [TAG]

Overview
Headquarters: 
New York, NY, United States
Size: 
11-50 employees
Founded: 
1992
Annual Budget : 
$1-5M
Populations Served: 
All Populations
About Us
Mission: 

Treatment Action Group (TAG) is an independent, activist and community-based research and policy think tank fighting for better treatment, prevention, a vaccine, and a cure for HIV, tuberculosis, and hepatitis C virus.

TAG works to ensure that all people with HIV, TB, or HCV receive lifesaving treatment, care, and information.

We are science-based treatment activists working to expand and accelerate vital research and effective community engagement with research and policy institutions.

TAG catalyzes open collective action by all affected communities, scientists, and policy makers to end HIV, TB, and HCV.

Programs: 

TAG’s Project Areas include HIV basic science, vaccines, prevention, treatment, and cure; HCV; and TB:

  • HIV – TAG works with the HIV community, scientists, government, and the pharmaceutical industry to advance the discovery, development, and delivery of safe, tolerable, and effective biomedical prevention and HIV treatment modalities across the globe, and to support the science necessary to find vaccines and cures for the disease. TAG is working with advocates, policymakers, researchers, health care providers, and government officials to identify frameworks for ending HIV as an epidemic on national and state levels, through collaborative focus on the National HIV/AIDS Strategy; continued engagement in, and replication of, the New York State Plan to End AIDS; and a commitment to comprehensive HIV prevention service delivery for at-risk populations. TAG is also developing a series of case studies evaluating models of effective community mobilization in the U.S., to help identify best practices associated with increased demand for prevention and care services and grassroots advocacy, and to ensure the longevity of these programs in the era of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).       
  • Basic Science, Vaccines, and Cure: TAG’s Basic Science, Vaccines, and Cure Project works with HIV community members, scientists, and policy makers to enhance public understanding of the basic science of HIV infection; address gaps in HIV research; critique research efforts; foster cross-disciplinary collaborations; accelerate research into HIV pathogenesis; and speed the development of effective immune-based therapies, preventive medicines, a vaccine, and a cure.
  • Hepatitis and HIV: TAG’s Hepatitis/HIV Project works with the HCV and HIV communities, scientists, government, and drug companies to make lifesaving information along with safer, more tolerable, and more effective hepatitis C treatment available to all who need them. New treatments for HCV are changing the standard of care, and TAG is providing leading-edge community information and educational materials targeted to people with HCV, as well as those coinfected with HCV and HIV, while leading global campaigns for lower drug prices and universal access to curative treatment.
  • Tuberculosis and HIV: TAG’s TB/HIV Project works to strengthen global and U.S.-focused advocacy to increase funding and ensure ambitious and improved research, programs, and policy to ensure universal access to quality services for people with TB and HIV; to catalyze global leadership to accelerate momentum toward universal access for high-quality TB and TB/HIV services; to accelerate and increase funding and progress in R&D for better tools to prevent, diagnose, and treat TB; and to accelerate progress in program scale-up and research to eliminate TB as a global public health threat. The worldwide effort to control TB is failing. The ongoing spread of TB, including drug-resistant strains, presents a grave threat, especially to HIV-positive people in countries with high rates of both diseases. HIV infection makes a person much more susceptible to TB disease, and it fuels the increase in TB cases, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Furthermore, the spread of TB that is drug-resistant demonstrates the failure of established strategies for TB control. Due to the inadequacy of current TB diagnostic tools and treatments, as well as poor coordination of TB and HIV services, TB still is the leading cause of death for HIV-positive people globally.
Why Work For Us?: 

Treatment Action Group is an independent AIDS research and policy think tank fighting for better treatment, a vaccine, and a cure for AIDS, TB and hepatitis C virus. TAG works to ensure that all people with HIV, TB and HCV receive lifesaving treatment, care, and information. We are science-based treatment activists working to expand and accelerate vital research and effective community engagement with research and policy institutions. TAG catalyzes open collective action by all affected communities, scientists, and policy makers to end AIDS and its prevalent coinfections.

The Treatment Action Group had its origins in the AIDS activist organization, ACT-UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power). In January 1992, members of the Treatment and Data Committee of ACT-UP left the parent group to create a nonprofit organization focused on accelerating treatment research. During the early 1990s, TAG members advocated with government scientists, drug company researchers, and Food & Drug Administration officials to speed the development of new HIV therapies. The group produced an influential policy report on government investment in basic science, which recommended increasing funding to the U.S. National Institutes of Health and reorganizing the national AIDS research effort. Following approval of several effective antiretroviral drugs in 1995, TAG pressed the government and the pharmaceutical industry to conduct research to understand the long-term effects of the new drugs.

TAG also raises awareness of the impact that TB and hepatitis C have on people with HIV in the developing world, fighting for better treatments and access. 

TAG is a non-profit corporation with 501c(3) status.

industry: 
Nonprofit