Today & every day, we're calling on governments in developing nations to make HCV treatment accessible to high-risk populations. Testing. Treatment. No more barriers.
#WorldLiverDay #HepC #EndHepC
With Médecins du Monde, TAG built WorthTheCure.org, a hub for the latest HCV science, training resources for communities, and awareness art by New Yorkers affected by HCV.
"Despite DAAs curing HCV in just 8–12 weeks, treatment still costs $500+. Pharma companies promised to lower costs to $60 for low-to-middle income countries and haven't followed through. We're calling them out."
— TAG Acting HCV Project Director Joelle Dountio O.
Today is #WorldLiverDay! 🩺
Hepatitis C (HCV) can lead to liver cancer if untreated, yet 95%-effective cures (DAAs) exist. The problem isn't science. It's access.
A thread on what TAG is doing about it. 🧵
"Congress passing the budget to ensure essential PEPFAR programs are being funded globally and the White House refusing to release the funding… is absolutely disgusting and dangerous. Millions of folks are going to suffer and potentially die."
-Kendall Martinez-Wright, TAG (arrested today)
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Congress has approved PEPFAR funds for the last TWO years, despite Vought's efforts to gut the program. Now, the President's 2027 budget request eliminates HIV-specific programming entirely and cuts global health funding by $4 BILLION
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Our direct action led to arrests. But our message was heard loud and clear: Vought must be held accountable for his blatant attempts to destroy life-saving health programs like the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
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🧵 "PEPFAR saves lives, spend the money!"
Today, HIV/AIDS activists and former USAID employees took that message directly to OMB Director Russell Vought during a congressional hearing in D.C. and they weren't leaving quietly.
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TAG presents "What TB Treatment Advocates Need to Know about Active TB Drug Safety Monitoring & Pharmacovigilance (aDSM/PV)". 🫁
New shorter, all-oral DR-TB regimens (BPaL/M, BEAT, endTB) are a game-changer, but pharmacovigilance is key.
Register: www.treatmentactiongroup.org/web.../adsm-...
The CDC paused testing for rabies, mpox, measles, and plans to permanently cut dozens of others. With a 20% workforce cut and 41% budget slash proposed, this is a public health crisis in the making. Reinstate testing now.
🔗 Read our full statement: www.treatmentactiongroup.org/statement/cd...
The Global Fund's Grant Cycle 8 is now open and countries that move quickly will be best positioned to access funding for these tests. TAG's new factsheet gives advocates everything they need to make it happen.
🔗 www.treatmentactiongroup.org/publication/...
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These portable, battery-powered tests deliver results in under 30 minutes closer to where people first seek care.
The WHO recommended them in February 2026. The first available test costs $3.60 and works with a tongue swab, removing a major barrier for patients.
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TB is still the world's leading infectious disease killer and in 2024, an estimated 2.7 million people who developed TB went undiagnosed. New near point-of-care (NPOC) tests could change that.
Check out our NPOC TB test factsheet and learn how to navigate Global Fund's Grant Cycle 8.
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"It's so important to bring storytelling to the present," said Tamrin. Mike highlighted TB's prominence throughout Wuthering Heights, while Erin drew a line between TB stigma and the vampire myth in Sinners, noting how TB imagery of being "wasted away" shaped cultural folklore.
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Tamrin, TAG TB Project Co-Director Mike Frick, and Senior TB Project Associate Erin McConnell discussed how works like "Wuthering Heights", "Sinners", and "Moulin Rouge" reflect TB's present-day reality and why new narratives are needed to combat stigma.
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To mark #WorldTBDay, TAG joined "Moulin Rouge! The Musical" cast member Tamrin Goldberg for a panel on TB advocacy, exploring how pop culture storytelling shapes our understanding of tuberculosis today.
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Thanks for hosting @rutgershealth.org @nychealthy.bsky.social!
We’re hiring an Administrator at TAG.
NYC-based, $65–75K + full benefits.
Support the ops behind our lifesaving work on HIV, TB, and hepatitis C.
Apply: www.treatmentactiongroup.org/about-us/wor...
TB killed 1.2 million people in 2024. It's the deadliest infectious disease. On #WorldTBDay, TAG releases A Shot at Success – A Vax-Zine on New TB Vaccines. We stand with affected communities to fight misinformation, demand urgency, and push for new treatments.
🔗 taglink.info/WorldTBDay2026
War is a public health crisis.
TAG condemns the U.S. war in Iran. Billions are spent daily on weapons while health programs are cut. We're calling on Congress to reject military spending and invest in health care instead.
We choose health. We choose research.
🔗 bit.ly/TAGwarStatem...
@resultsuk.bsky.social @globalfundwomen.bsky.social
Take part in the TB Vax ARM survey on civil society priorities for TB vaccine preparedness & access to inform important elements of future TB vaccine access instruments.
📅Until Fri, 3 Apr 2026
⏲️~20-25 mins
Languages: EN, FR, ES, PT, RU
🔗: forms.gle/E5dAakmkVZ42...
We’re hiring a Grant Officer at Treatment Action Group.
Help support the grants and partnerships that sustain our work advancing HIV, TB, and HCV research, policy, and advocacy.
Learn more and apply: www.treatmentactiongroup.org/about-us/wor...
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RID-HIV Community Advisory Board
@thewellprojecthiv.bsky.social
Treatment Educat10n Network
uwsph.bsky.social / fredhutch.org CFAR, Immunology, Retrovirology and Cure (IRC) Core
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eatgroup.bsky.social
HOPE Collaboratory Community Advisory Board
I4C Community Advisory Board
NMAC
PAVE Collaboratory Community Advisory Board
REACH Collaboratory Community Advisory Board
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Thanks to all the amazing sponsors:
AIDS Treatment Activists Coalition
@avac.org
BEAT-HIV Community Advisory Board
CRISPR for Cure Community Advisory Board
DARE Community Advisory Board
Enterprise for Research and Advocacy to Stop and Eradicate HIV (ERASE-HIV) Community Advisory Board
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Recordings and slides from the 2026 Pre-CROI Community HIV Cure Research Workshop are now available.
Hosted by TAG and partners, the workshop brought together researchers and community advocates to discuss the latest developments in HIV cure research.
www.treatmentactiongroup.org/webinar/2026...
Activists are relentlessly defending funding for vital HIV programs and services. Coalitions across the country are fighting back to protect HIV prevention, treatment, and research funding.
📽️: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOXl...
#SaveHIVFunding #CommunityPower #TAG
Chanting activists hang banners from Cannon House Rotunda
Chanting activists hang banners from Cannon House Rotunda
Chanting activists hang banners from Cannon House Rotunda
Chanting activists hang banners from Cannon House Rotunda
#BREAKING: 13 arrested in Cannon House Rotunda demanding immediate release of $977 million in PEPFAR funding illegally impounded by Vought, read: bit.ly/PEPFARSlowDown
and press release: healthgap.org/press/activi... @housingworksnyc.bsky.social @treatmentactiongroup.org
(2 of 2) It gets dismantled piece by piece. In this interview, Riko Boone explains how, as a result of HIV infrastructure being stripped away, communities will see rising rates of HIV diagnoses, decreased access to treatment and PrEP, and more preventable deaths.
(1 of 2) They didn’t trim the rose garden. They demolished it — just as they’re doing to domestic and global health. Public health doesn’t disappear overnight.
Watch. Share. Protect what saves lives.
#HIVAdvocacy #PublicHealth #EndHIV
📽️: youtu.be/IaQsJwfOQvE?...