Treatment Action Group (TAG) 'envisions the end of the HIV, tuberculosis (TB), and hepatitis C (HCV) pandemics with the discovery, development, and worldwide dissemination of safe and effective diagnostics, preventives, and cures through public health structures that end systemic harms and promote human rights, and that are developed by the diverse communities most affected by these conditions. This vision will be realized based on data and science, and achieved through community engagement, distributive justice, and equitable access to the benefits of science'. https://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/
TAG have issued a statement today:
Full text: https://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/statement/tag-joins-allies-at-state...
Extracts:
'Treatment Action Group (TAG) fiercely condemns the new presidential administration’s deadly and hateful attack on people living with HIV and their communities at home and around the world...
'The administration has also taken steps to remove scientific knowledge and guidance for affected communities. For example, scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Institutes of Health have been prevented from interacting with the public. Their websites have suffered selective black-outs and removal of vital health information regarding, for example, pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, transgender health services, accompanied by the deletion of public databases on government websites. LGBTQI+ health and safety information across government websites has been among the worst targeted. “This vile and dangerous bigotry is designed to compromise the health and dignity of vulnerable populations,” said TAG Government Relations & Policy Associate Kendall Martinez-Wright, who will be one of the rally’s speakers.
“We’ll work together as a movement – as we have for the past four decades, under seven Presidents and regardless of the composition of Congress – to ensure that people living with HIV and those at risk are protected, honored, respected, and treated with dignity and the medical and social services they need to live long and productive lives,” said Riko Boone, TAG’s HIV Project Director. “For millions of people living with HIV, this is truly a matter of life and death.”
HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator of HIFA (Healthcare Information For All), a global health community that brings all stakeholders together around the shared goal of universal access to reliable healthcare information. HIFA has 20,000 members in 180 countries, interacting in four languages and representing all parts of the global evidence ecosystem. HIFA is administered by Global Healthcare Information Network, a UK-based nonprofit in official relations with the World Health Organization. Email: neil@hifa.org