TAGline
from the Treatment Action Group (TAG):
A monthly paper of research and policy
2009
Summer 2009
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- AIDS Funding Backlash
A conversation with Sue Perez and Gregg Gonsalves.
By Scott W. Morgan
- The HIV Entry Ban: What's Next?
A talk with Nancy Ordover.
By Bob Huff
- A Long-Term Survivor
The pioneering MACS cohort.
By Gregg Gonsalves
- State AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) Hepatitis Coverage (PDF)
- Two New TAG Publications
Research funding gaps revealed
Winter 2008/2009
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- TAG Sponsors "Cure Meeting"
- TAG Remembers Paul Newman
2008
Summer 2008
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- Sixteen Radical Steps to End the AIDS Epidemic
By Mark Harrington
- Notes on the 2008 International AIDS Conference
By Bob Huff
- Meet the Activists: Battling the TB/HIV Epidemic Through Community Action
- A Chimpanzee Tale: Why Are They Resistant to AIDS?
By Richard Jefferys
- The Shrinking of PAVE100: Large-Scale Vaccine Trial Nixed
By Richard Jefferys
Winter 2008
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- Merck HIV Vaccine Trial Results: Hopes Dim for Struggling Field
By Richard Jefferys
- Action Needed Against TB/HIV and the MDR- and XDR-TB Crisis
By Theo Smart and Javid Syed
- Palm Project Interviews: A Talk With Steven Deeks
By Richard Jefferys
- "Cure for AIDS" Finds New Life Among Scientists and Activists
2007
September 2007
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- Rapidly Progressing Hepatitis C in New York Gay Men
By Tracy Swan
- The Sitges Statement on HCV Drug Development
- Studying New Drugs for HCV: Excerpts From the FDA Hearings
By Bob Huff
- Worldwide Antiretroviral Drug Sales 2006
- Faster TB Test for Resource-Limited Settings
By Theo Smart
- Basic Research is a Government Responsibility
By Robert Siliciano, M.D., Ph.D.
- Immune Activation in HIV Infection: More Than Just Markers
By Richard Jefferys
2006
December 2006
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- Activist Chides TB Congress for Complacency in Facing Drug Resistance
By Theo Smart
- Tuberculosis Research & Development: A Critical Analysis
- How We Treat TB Today: A Talk With Gavin Churchyard
By Mark Harrington
- TB Transmission in Healthcare Settings
By Theo Smart
- Gut Reactions
By Richard Jefferys
- Update: Leaking LPS
- In Brief
- GRACE Under Pressure
By Rob Camp
- Editorial: What's Next? Leadership Lacking in Move From 3x5 to Universal Access
By Mark Harrington
April 2006
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- SMART Stops Stopping
By Richard Jefferys
- HCV at CROI: Growing Chasm Between Bench and Bedside
By Tracy Swan
- Overlapping Epidemics: TB, HIV and Viral Hepatitis
By Tracy Swan
- TB Diagnostics: A Crisis for People Living With HIV/AIDS Worldwide
By Javid Syed
- Co-Receptor Conundrum
By Richard Jefferys
2005
January 2005
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- Dismal Science: Squandering Public Goodwill and Scarce Research Funds to Boot -- But to What End?
By Richard Jefferys
- Well, How Did We Get Here? A Timeline for the Initiation of the RV144 Prime-Boost Trial
By Richard Jefferys
- Late 2004 Changes to Federal (DHHS) Treatment Guidelines
- Caveat Lector, the Sequel: Tangle of Interests and Disclosure Omissions Cracks Authors' Case for Early, Aggressive Treatment
By Mike Barr
- Taylor-ed Treatment: Brown University Clinician Leads the Way in Providing Competent Care to Coinfected Injectors
By Tracy Swan
- Letters to the Editor
2004
December 2004
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- Truvánadu: Does Gilead's Famed 903 Study Really Show You What They Tell You It Shows?
By Steven Miles, M.D.
- Cell Therapy aka Therapeutic "Vaccine" Surprise Announcement for World AIDS Day
By Mike Barr
- Project Inform's IX IRTT: Why the Tap 'n' Drainers Have Always Been Wrong; Plus, a New Theory About MDR HIV
By Richard Jefferys
- Dogs and Ponies: Mixed Results (and Lots of Diarrhea) for the Tipranavir Studies; Plus Salvage Study Designs for JNJ/Tibotec's PI and Non-Nuke
By Rob Camp and Mike Barr
- Who Provides You With Up-to-Date Treatment Information? Popular Treatment Information Resources for Doctors and Patients -- and Their Reliance on Pharmaceutical Largesse
October 2004
- Treble Damages: Vaccine Scientists Struggle to Come to Grips With the Field's "Berlin"
By Richard Jefferys
- Little Leap: Gilead 2-in-1 Opens Door to Impending One-Pill Triple Combo
By Rob Camp
- Note to Readers/Aviso a Nuestros Lectores en Español
- Now Available at the TAG Web Site
September 2004
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- The Irony of Bangkok: How to Get 6 Million Poor People on Antiretroviral Therapy -- and 1 Million Rich People Off
- The Agony of Bangkok: Thai Activist Exhorts Conference Crowd to Stand Firm Against U.S. Patent Regime and "Masks of Fake Concern"
By Paisan Suwannawong
- A Call to Arms: Veteran NEJM Editor Takes on Big Pharma as No One Before; Calls for Sweeping Reforms
August 2004
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- TDM, Stat!: More Mixes Nixed By Concentration Preoccupations
By Yasmin Halima and Rob Camp
- Continuous HAART and the Law of Diminishing Returns: French Researchers Question Benefit of Lifelong Antiretroviral Treatment
- Breaking the Silence, v2: Treatment Advocates Strategize At TAG's 2nd Annual International TB/HIV Workshop
July 2004
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- One Step Forward: Merck Vaccine Moves Forward With Efficacy Trial, While Special Committee Tries to Salvage Thai Study
- Checkmate: French African Study Offers Critical Challenge To Generics Obstructionists
By Mike Barr
- Stern Words For Pfizer
June 2004
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- Goodnight, Gracie! Quirky PK of BI's Tipranavir May Confine Its Use to Limited Rescue Role
By Rob Camp
- Public Unhealth: Expert Panel's Decision to Recommend Against Routine HCV Screening Draws Community Ire
By Tracy Swan
- Response to U.S. Preventative Services Task Force Recommendations on Screening for HCV Infection
May 2004
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- Trust Busting: Abbott, Trimeris/Roche Pricing Decisions Rekindle Old R&D Cost Questions
- Letters to the Editor
- Pharmacy by Fiat: Little-Noticed Ban of Little-Used Drug Triggers Little-Known Investigation
By Dr. Paul C. Bellman
April 2004
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- Peg Elation: XI CROI, Stage for Results of Three Large HCV Treatment Trials
By Tracy Swan
- Where's My Pipeline? Vicissitudes of Medicine and Marketing Take Toll on Me-Too Line Up
By Rob Camp
March 2004
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- Fuzeon Fizzles: Bungled T-20 Launch Claims Its First Casualties, as Losses Spread
By Mike Barr
- Crux as Crock: One Shot Immune-Based Therapy Would Be Patient Dream -- and Pharma's Dread
Interview with Richard Jefferys
- Seven (Minus 4, Plus 3) Agents to Fix Your Gaze On
By Rob Camp
February 2004
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- Shot in the Dark: Against the Odds, Immune-Based Therapies for HIV Slog Along
By Richard Jefferys
- Blockbusters Beckon: Proliferation of Polymerase Inhibitors and Other Tales From the HCV Crypt
By Tracy Swan
January 2004
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- Heart of the Matter: To Date, Global Fund Offers Hype and Hope -- But Little Else -- to Majority of Those in Need
By Richard Stern
- For Thousands of PWHIVs, Scale Up = Death
By Richard Stern
- World AIDS Day in Bolivia: Activists Interrupt Vice Minister of Health at Inauguration Ceremony
- Holding Court: Activist Meeting With FDA Drugs Division Sets Broad Agenda for Change
By Rob Camp
2003
December 2003
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- Give 'em Hell, Hogan: Pointers and Prerogatives From and for the Unrepentant Problem Patient
By Carlton Hogan
- TAG 2003: The Year at a Glance
- Past as Prologue: Expediency, Cost-Cutting Trump Science in Peg-Intron Clinical Development Plan
By Tracy Swan
November 2003
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- Lexiva Launch: Glaxo Makes Aggressive Push Into Protease Market With New and Improved Amprenavir
By Rob Camp and Heidi Nass
- Scrambling the Code: What a Difference a Nucleotide Makes -- Plus IL-15's Role Is STI Outcomes
By Richard Jefferys
October 2003
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- The Diabolic Science: VaxGen's Claims of Vaccine Efficacy Evanesce in Autumn's Last Light
By Richard Jefferys
- Medi Gap: Congressional Juggling of Medicare Drug Coverage Leaves Many in the Lurch
- Letter to President Bush
By William E. Arnold, Mark Harrington and A. Cornelius Baker
September 2003
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- Rx Americas: Antiretroviral Therapy in Latin America: North of the Southern Cone, a Good Plan Is Hard to Find
By Richard Stern
- Tragical Realism: Treatment Coverage for Selected Countries
By Richard Stern
- ACTing UP for Treatment Access in Latin America
By Richard Stern
- Second Shoe: Doha Dance Has Health Ministries Scheming to Provide Care -- Without Pissing Off Uncle Sam
By Anne Christine d'Adesky
July 2003
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- Separated at Birth
- Saturation Point: Latest Licensure Breaks Records for Ho-Hum Reception, yet What Exactly Is There to Be Excited About?
By Rob Camp
- Wheat From Chaff: Take-No-Prisoners Tack on TAG Pipeline Report Snubs Host of Drab Wannabes; Cozies up to Fevered Few
June 2003
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May 2003
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- Escape From the CTLs: Acute Rx Paradigm Dealt Heavy Blow, While Neutralizing Antibodies Stage a Comeback
By Richard Jefferys
- End of an Era: Can a Conference (and an Activist) Outlive Its Utility? A Moment of Unabashed Navel Gazing
By David Barr
- TAG at Ten: The Year 2002
April 2003
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- Full Count: Having Sired Twin Failures Hivid and Invirase, Roche Tempts Fate With High Profile T-20 Launch
By Rob Camp and Matt Sharp
- Tipping Point: MSF, Oxfam Redefine the Possible, and Y2K Activist Trek to Durban Marks a Watershed
By David Barr
- TAG at Ten: The Year 2001
March 2003
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- Magic With Numbers: AIDSVAX Arbitrary and Post-Hoc Subset Analysis, Up Close
- Under Icebergs' Tip: Tissue T-Cell Analysis Represents Renewed Challenge to "Tap and Drain" Orthodoxy
By Richard Jefferys
- Yin and Yang: Yokohama, Vancouver, Twin Pacific Ports, Serve as Polar Opposites for Scientific Advances
By David Barr
- Consensus Statement: AIDSVAX Fails to Protect; VaxGen's Claims of Efficacy in Black and Asian Participants Are Misleading and Premature
- TAG at Ten: The Year 2000
January/February 2003
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- Pushing the Envelope: Critical Issues From TAG's Forthcoming HCV/HIV Co-Infection Report and Analysis
By Tracy Swan
- Necessary Diversions: The Boston AIDS Conference That Never Was -- And Other Grim Tales
By David Barr
- TAG at Ten: The Year 1999
2002
December 2002
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- Enemies at the Gate: Storming Montréal's Palais de Congrès, and Makeshift Battle Stations in Fortress San Francisco
By David Barr
- TAG at Ten: The Year 1998
- Jabberwocky: Feel Good, "Why Can't We Just All Be Friends?" Executive Reunion Ends in Promises Aplenty
By Mark Harrington
November 2002
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- Altered States: Nattering Nabobs' Noxious Spin, And the Imperiled Future of STI Research
By Richard Jefferys
- TAG at Ten: The Year 1997
- Marking Time: Commune of Shell Shocked Soldiers Springs Up Then Quickly Crumbles, Inexplicably
By David Barr
October 2002
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- Double Jeopardy: Series of Superinfection Reports Leave Researchers Debating Not "If" but "How" -- And What It All Means
By Richard Jefferys
- Re-Infection Data Summarized
By Richard Jefferys
- The Way Forward: Philly ACT UPer and Health Gap Founder Tackles the Challenges of an Aging Activist Movement
September 2002
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- Turn the Beat Around: Disco Queen Née Policy Gadfly Recalls Decade of Seismic Shifts in Clinical Landscape
By Lynda Dee
- TAG at 10: The Year 1996
- Putting It Together: As Scale Up to Rx for 3M by 2005 Proceeds, Activist Groups Worldwide Begin to Lay Groundwork
By Mark Harrington
July 2002
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- Swindling Siam
Consensus statement in opposition to licensure of Remune as monotherapy for HIV infection in Thailand
- Co-Conspirators
HIV spread threatens decade's tuberculosis treatment/prevention success
- Guiding Light
Overwhelming array of variables confounds interpretation of co-infection studies
May 2002
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- Fairy Tale Failure: Studies of PI-Resistant Virus Offer Tantalizing Possibilities for Immune Reconstitution
By Richard Jeffreys
- Community Rx: Scrapping Volunteer Model Meant Curtains for Activist Conscripts and Paved Way for TAG Ascendency
By David Barr
- TAG at 10: The Year 1995
- Advocate Finds Harrington's WHO Guideline Comments Refreshing
By Richard Stern
April 2002
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- Flying the Coop: Giant Prophylactic Enshrouds Senator's Suburban Home; New Era of Inside/Outside Activism Is Born
- TAG at 10: The Year 1994
- Suivez La Piste: HIV-Specific CD4 Cell, Holy Grail of Immune Control, Is Hunted Down in Paris Laboratory
By Richard Jefferys
- HIV-Specific T-Cell Activity by Fiat? Studies Currently Underway in France
- Not to Be Sneezed At: Merck's HIV Vaccine Program
March 2002
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- Activism = Hope: TAG Elder/Alumnus Remembers Struggles Past and Present With Humility, Nostalgia, Foreboding
By Gregg Gonsalves
- Once We Were Warriors: Activist Corpses Borne in Protest, Furtive Legislative Coups, and the Devastation That Was Berlin
By Mark Harrington
- TAG at 10: The Year 1993
January/February 2002
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- Annals of Crisis: A Peek Back at TAG's First Year Shows How Much, and How Little, Has Changed
By Mark Harrington
- Revenge of the CTLs: Harvard Vaccine Team Exposes Potential Dark Side of Reliance on Cellular Immune Protection
By Richard Jeffreys
- Mobilizing the Troops: Newly International North American Activist Alliance Gathers in Vancouver
By Mark Baker
2001
November 2001
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- Tenofovir (Viread), First Novel Antiviral Agent in Six Years, Approved by FDA
- Riddle Women: Reports of Progress Toward Understanding How Some People Appear to Fight Off HIV
By Richard Jeffreys
- Studies on Exposed Seronegative Cohorts
- Patent Politics: Nongovernmental Organization Access Effort Dealt Stealth Blow By Ivy League Development Institute
September 2001
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- Breaking It Down
- Down the Pike: Argentina International AIDS Society Conference Snoozer Prompts Systematic Review of Drug Pipeline
By Mark Harrington
- Shreds of Evidence: Shudda, Cudda, Wudda -- Reevaluating the Treatment Revolution After the Fall
By David Barr
- Coming, Going and Gone: The Drug Development Pipeline, 2002
July/August 2001
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- Strike Two: Succumbing to Exhaustion
By David Barr
- Drug Economy: Souped-Up Monotherapy
By Mike Barr
- Human Leukocyte Antigens (HLA) and HIV Disease Progression
June 2001
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- Vaccine Vitriol: Call for Poor Country Focus on Treatment, Care Programs Elicits Voice of Concern from Vaccine Outfit
By Mark Harrington
- African Epistle: Outrage, Indifference Greet Plans for Worldwide Treatment Agenda -- As Millions More Die
By Mark Harringon
- Stalled in the Gates: The Not So Accelerated Access Initiative
By Mark Harringon
April 2001
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- Needleless Retinitis Therapy With FDA Approval of Oral CMV Drug
- FDA Discusses Trial Design for Salvage Therapy
- Brazil 1, Merck 0: The Cost of Generic Drugs in Brazil
March 2001
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- Vaccine Advance: Merck Makes Surprise Announcement of Human Vaccine Trial, Currently Underway
- Open Letter to Pharma Execs
- March 5th: Day of Global Direct Action for Drug Access
January 2001
- Pendulum Swing: Treatment Paradigms Come and Go, But the Virus and Its Problematic Potions Appear Intractable
- Simian Success: Vaccine Study Seen as Significant Advance, But Questions Remain About Human Applicability
- Early Indications of What "The Accidental President" Might Do for AIDS
2000
December 2000
- Brazil: What Went Right?
- Glaxo Guts Ghana's Import of Generic Combivir and Prepares for Battle
- Generic Jabberwocky: Quality Control of Brazilian-Made Antivirals
September 2000
- Being There: Durban Delegates Return Stateside, Fired Up and Ready to Jump Back Into the Fray
- African Justice: High Court Official, Openly HIV-Positive, Brings Durban Crowd to Their Feet With Heartfelt Plea for Equity
- Taking it to the Street: Thousands Strong, Fledgling South African Activist Group Sends Tremors Around the Globe
- While You Were Sleeping: An African AIDS Aid Chronology
August 2000
- All The Things You Are: Stephen Matthew Gendin, February 20, 1966 - July 19, 2000
- Call To Arms: Africa to Asia, Caribbean to Kazakhstan, An Explosive Epidemic Said to Threaten Backbone of Civil Society
- Dear Dr. Fauci: Broad Coalition of Organizations Calls on NIH to Devote Resources to Questions of Long-Term Therapy
- Notice Paid: TAG's Hepatitis Project Bears Its First and Future Fruit, Issues Research and Treatment Policy Recommendations
- Hepatitis C Infection Research & Policy Recommendations
July 2000
- Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in HIV Clinical Care
- What's This About P-Glycoprotein?
- P-gp and the Drugs It Affects
- Some Unanswered Questions About Therapeutic Drug Monitoring
June 2000
- Liver Spot: Progress Is Being Made But Much Remains to Be Done in the Treatment of Hepatitis C Infection
- Vagina Dialogues: Women-Controlled STD Prevention Methods Take Center Stage in Washington
- Striking the Balance: Brave New World of Human Gene Sequencing Finds Porous Policy Guidelines to Its Liking
April 2000
- Bonanza: With Demand for Treatment Breaks at Record Level, Market for Tiny, Uninterpretable Studies Flourishes
- Diminishing Returns: Two-Week Viral Rebounds in Four Swiss Intermittent Treatment Trial (SITT) Patients over the course of Three STIs (Table)
- Research Rut: Beefed Up Federal AIDS Vaccine Program Found to Suffer from Lingering Shortcomings
- Agouron and Immune Response to Bridge Rx Gap
March 2000
- Cohort Studies Suggesting Immediate HAART Confers No Extra Benefit Compared with Deferred HAART in HIV-Infected Persons CD4 >200 cells/mm3 (Table)
- Behemoth: Eradication's Ebb Finds Researchers Wrestling Again with Clinical Outcome Concerns
- ART Real World: Observational Databases Promise to Solve Clinical Trials Lag, But Experts Warn All Data Not Created Equal
- OCS Redux: International Statistical Panel Puts Observational Cohort Study Research Possibilities into Perspective, Identifies Limitations
January 2000
- Selected Primate Models of HIV Infection (Table)
- Research Agenda for Treatment Breaks
- Death by Rx: Where Good Meets Harm
- Vaccine Notes from the Cent Gardes
1999
September 1999
- Not So Unforgiving After All? (Table)
- HIV Immunology: The Road Ahead
- Toronto: Stirrings of a Treatment Revolution
- Stopping Therapy: Intriguing New Data
June 1999
- Data Drought: As Treatment Euphoria Ebbs, Stubborn Uncertainties Resurface But Are Unlikely to Be Resolved
- Early or Late? Arguments for Immediate Antiretroviral Therapy Versus Delayed Antiretroviral Therapy (Table)
- Gotcha: HIV Antibody Breakthrough in Transgenic Mice Could Prove Boon to Vaccine Effort
- Status of Current HIV-1 Vaccine Strategies (Table)
May 1999
- TAG Community Forum: AIDS Vaccines and Microbicides, the Latest Developments
- AZT Monotherapy Veteran Checks out Chemotherapeutic Quitsville and Lives to Tell About It
- Frontiers of Immunology: Thymic Rebound, Naïve CD4+ T-Cell Repopulation Demonstrated in Individuals on HAART
- T-Cell Kinetics in HIV-Negative and HIV-Infected Individuals (Table)
- Differences Between Hellerstein and Ho T-Cell Labeling Experiments (Table)
- Thymic Immigration (Table)
March 1999
- Researchers and Patients Struggle to Interpret Viral Breakthrough
- Continual Suppression to Yield to Pulsed Therapy? (sidebar)
- AIDSVax Field Trial Makes a Splash While Humble Canarypox Phase II Plods Along Uncelebrated
- Status of Current HIV-1 Vaccine Strategies (Table)
January 1999
- Scottish Scribe Tells of Resistance Testing Success, Superinfection, Flaws in Dual Protease Regimens
- At a Glance: South Africa (Table)
- VIRADAPT: Physician Judgment vs. Genotypic Resistance Results for Treatment Switching Decisions Upon Virologic Rebound (Table)
- Tidy Clinical Science Stares Down Quotidien Chaos Theory; Might Not "Late, Hard" Be Better After All?
Articles/Reports
- HIV/AIDS-Related Complications (Regularly updated)
- A Letter to President Obama (November 18, 2009)
- Cause for Caution on the Results of the ALVAC/AIDSVAX HIV Vaccine Efficacy Trial: More Marginal Than "Modest" (September 25, 2009)
- Antiretroviral Drug Development in 2009 (July 2009)
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- TAG 2009 Pipeline Report (PDF) (July 2009)
- Tell Congress to Make Health Care Reform Work for People With HIV/AIDS! (June 19, 2009)
- Guide to Hepatitis B for People Living With HIV (June 2009)
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- Flat-Lined: How Flat NIH Funding Undermines Research on HIV, Tuberculosis, and Viral Hepatitis (PDF) (May 2009)
- Tuberculosis Research & Development: A Critical Analysis of Funding Trends, 2005–2007: An Update (PDF) (May 2009)
- TAG's Response to NIAID "Request for Information" on Priorities in Basic HIV Vaccine Research (June 4, 2008)
- PAVE Gives Pause: Position Statement on the Proposed PAVE100A Vaccine Trial (May 30, 2008)
- Updated, Annotated Preventive Vaccine Pipeline Table (May 29, 2008)
Information on the current preventive HIV vaccine pipeline, annotated with commentary and links to published and presented data.
- Hepatitis C: New Treatments in the Pipeline (April 2008)
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- Opinion: TB Striking Back With a Vengeance; Need for Research Funds Grows Urgent (Winter 2007)
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- Guide to Hepatitis C for People Living With HIV (August 2007)
Testing, coinfection, treatment and support
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- Access to Hepatitis C Treatment Through State AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs) (May 31, 2007)
- Sitges Statement on HIV/HCV Coinfection (May 18, 2007)
- Notes From the NIAID Workshop on Immune Activation and HIV Pathogenesis (May 18, 2007)
- Treatment Action Group Supports Maraviroc Approval (May 1, 2007)
- 2007 Antiretrovirals in Development Pipeline (March 23, 2007)
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- Palm Project Interview Series: Douglas Nixon (February 8, 2007)
- Palm Project Interview Series: Steven Deeks (February 8, 2007)
- TMC114/r (darunavir/r, Prezista): Who's got the POWER? (May 25, 2006)
- AIDS Activism, Boehringer Ingelheim and the Broken Social Contract (April 21, 2006)
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- Treatment Action Group Statement on the Termination of the SMART Study (January 18, 2006)
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- Immune-Based Therapies and Preventive Technologies Pipeline (September 29, 2005)
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- The Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Treatment Pipeline (September 26, 2005)
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- Lactic Acidosis (September 19, 2005)
- The Tuberculosis (TB) Treatment Pipeline (July 2005)
- TAG Testimony to the FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (September 28, 2004)
Regarding the U.S. Military/NIAID-sponsored RV144 ALVAC/AIDSVAX "Prime-Boost" vaccine trial in Thailand
- Position Paper on 908 (Fosamprenavir, Lexiva) (October 13, 2003)
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- Position Paper on Atazanavir (BMS-232623, Reyataz) (July 23, 2003)
- Fuzeon Brand Enfuvirtide (T-20): Breaking Barriers or Breaking the Bank? (March 7, 2003)
- Research and Policy Recommendations for HCV/HIV Coinfection (February 2003)
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- January/February 2003 Basic Science Review (January/February 2003)
- Swiss-Spanish Intermittent Treatment Trial Downer (January 29, 2003)
- September 2002 Basic Science Review (September 2002)
- Updates From Retrovirus 2002: Basic Science and Vaccines (April 9, 2002)
- Coming, Going and Gone: The Drug Development Pipeline, 2002 (March 12, 2002)
- The Promise of New Vaccine Vectors, the Perils of Partial Protection (March 1, 2002)
Two new HIV vaccine studies published in the journal Nature
- What's in Glaxo's HIV Vaccine? (March 1, 2002)
- Comments on Problems in the Current Draft World Health Organization (WHO) Antiretroviral Treatment Guidelines for Resource Limited Settings (March 2002)
By Mark Harrington
- To Double, or Not to Double? Bioterror Buys a Budget Boost (February 2002)
By Mark Harrington
- Activists Call for Immediate Approval of Viread Tenofovir DF (October 3, 2001)
- Position Paper on NDA 21-356 for Gilead Sciences' Viread Brand Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate (October 3, 2001)
- Ten Texts on Saquinavir: Its Rapid Rise and Fall (PDF) (June 16, 2001)
By Mark Harrington
- A Critical Review of the Research and Treatment of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) and Hepatitis & HIV Coinfection (July 9-14, 2000)
By Michael Marco and Jeffrey Schouten
- Exploring the American Response to the Global AIDS Pandemic (Summer 2000)
- Problems With Protease Inhibitor Development Plans (February 23, 1995)
- THE KS PROJECT REPORT: Current Issues in Research and Treatment of Kaposi's Sarcoma (July 25, 1994)
By Michael Marco, with Martin Majchrowicz; forward by Susan E. Krown, M.D.
- The Crisis in Clinical AIDS Research (December 1, 1993)
By Mark Harrington
- Basic Research on HIV Infection: A Report From the Front (June 1, 1993)
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