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.