Project

• Tuberculosis Research & Development: A Critical Analysis of Funding Trends, 2005-2006
  powerpoint slide set accompanying report
• Satellite on TB/HIV: Battling the Dual Epidemic through Community Action
  ◊ Why is TB a major issue for PWH/A and what are the advocacy priorities? Javid Syed
  ◊ What are the challenges in diagnosing and treating TB amongst PWH/A? Prof. Adeeba Kamarulzaman
  ◊ How can TB/HIV services be provided collaboratively to save lives: Lessons from providing HIV testing to TB patients in Cambodia. Dr. Yoko Tsurugi

  Introducing Claire Wingfield, TB/HIV Project Coordinator

  New: Five presentations from Coalition for TB Free NYC community forum

  Advocates' Open Letter to WHO
  regarding compulsory licensing and the Thai government

  Tuberculosis Research & Development: A Critical Assessment 2nd edition
  An assessment of major funders of TB research in 2005, amount and kinds of research activity, providing a baseline for understanding how much funding will need to increase to bring TB under control over the next decade. Twenty recommendations to researchers and advocates includes goal of a comprehensive global agenda. (Second ed. posted 02/15/2007)

  Continuing Resolution Supports Funding for AIDS/TB/Malaria
  Sign-On Letter to Appropriations Committee

  TAG Receives $4.7 Million from the Gates Foundation
  to expand TB/HIV research & treatment advocacy

  Sign-On Letter to Dr. Piot
  need for coordination between UNAIDS and WHO TB programs

  TAG Demonstrates Shocking Underfunding of TB Research
  Top 40 Funders Spent Just $400 million on TB R&D in 2005
  — Less than 5% of HIV/AIDS R&D Investments —

  Sign-on Letter to Candidates for Executive Director of Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria
  Letter to candidates outlines important issues to address.

  OSI/TAG report on civil society involvement in TB/HIV
  A collaborative effort of Public Health Watch, a project of the Network Public Health Program at the Open Society Institute (OSI), and the Treatment Action Group (TAG) – highlights the work of six organizations supported by the TB/HIV Advocacy Grants Project, jointly launched by OSI and TAG in 2004.

  Tuberculosis R&D Investments: A Preliminary Assessment
  Preliminary results from TAG’s effort to ascertain who were the major funders of tuberculosis (TB) research and development (R&D) in 2005–the last year for which relatively complete data are available–what kinds of research activity they funded, and how much research activity is already taking place.

  Call for proposals — TB/HIV Monitoring and Advocacy Grants

  TB/HIV Monitoring & Advocacy Grant Guidelines & Application — deadline: May 31, 2006

  Monitoring Questionnaire—Draft

  International pre-conference consultative meeting announced Aug. 12-13, 2006
  HIV and TB in the context of universal access: what is working and what is not? In conjunction with XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada

  Tuberculosis Program at NIAID
  Presentation on development of new therapies for TB at NIAID through basic research, clinical development and clinical trials

  TB/HIV Coinfection
  presentation by Joan Carter, RESULTS, Javid Syed, TAG at a Federal AIDS Policy Partnership (FAPP) meeting June 26, 2005

  HIV and TB Research: Old Questions New Drugs
  presentation by Mark Harrington at the PATAM Workshop in Doualla, Cameroon July 11-14, 2005

  Importance of TB/HIV in HIV Treatment Preparedness
  Presentation on treatment preparedness by the TB/HIV Working Group.

  TAG's statement supporting increased funding for TB trial capacity to be added to ACET proceedings

  Towards a Revolution in Tuberculosis (TB) Prevention, Care and Treatment
  Statement of Individuals from Communities Affected by Tuberculosis (TB) released at the 36th World Congress on Lung Health in October. Now in English, French, Spanish, Russian & Chinese

  ITPC Involvement of UNAIDS in the Response to HIV/TB
  email to Peter Piot

  Tuberculosis (TB) Treatment Pipeline
  chapter from full report also in pdf format. Or download full report in pdf format.

  TB/HIV Advocacy
  Presentation to TB/HIV Trials Consortium, San Diego, CA

  Javid Syed, TAG's new TB/HIV Project Director

  TAG announces TB/HIV Project
  Project aims to integrate TB/HIV issues into global AIDS advocacy – and to broaden community advocacy, education & mobilization against HIV-related tuberculosis

  TB/HIV Grant Announcement • Aviso en español

Policy

• Sign-on letter to UNITAID's board supports additional resources for anti-TB drugs and global TB efforts
• Open letter to African Union Chairman supporting of TB/HIV advocacy
• Letter in response from WHO/UNAIDS
• First TB/HIV advocacy workshop, June 19-21, 2006
  Open Sign-on Letter to Peter Piot (added July 8, 2006)
• TB/HIV Activists Support The Global Plan to Stop TB: 2006-2015
  Plan Provides a Framework for Tackling TB/HIV, Developing New Tools to Control TB, and Increasing the Involvement of Affected Communities and People Living with TB
• Open letter to Peter Piot
  Addressing the need for implementing TB/HIV collaborative activities.
• Letter from WHO and the STB Partnership
  Response to advocacy letter of 14 October 2004
• WHO TB/HIV Policy document in English , French , Russian , Spanish
• After Addis: Strengthening HIV Community Involvement in the Fight Against TB and HIV
  Letter to the TB/HIV Working Group and the directors of the WHO HIV and Stop TB Departments

Partnerships

• Call to Action for TB and HIV Community Activists and Advocates to Stop TB
  World TB Day March 24, 2005. With Q+A on the Global Partnership to Stop TB
• Report from the 1st TB/HIV Consultative Meeting
  Meeting held in Kathmandu, Nepal, on 1 March 2005 by Oxygen Research & Development Forum, with support from OSI's TB/HIV advocacy project grant.
• Setting up a process for selecting community reps to the Stop TB Partnership
  With attachments in zipped file: Draft Manual of Procedures for the Stop TB Partnership, Announcement: NGO candidates for the Stop TB Coordinating Board, Draft Document: NGO participation in the Coordinating Board of the Global Partnership to Stop TB, Stop TB Coordinating Board-Terms of Office and staggering members, Basic Framework for the Global Partnership to Stop TB zipped file of Word docs
• Draft Manual of Procedures for the Stop TB Partnership (Roles, Functions and Procedures)
• After Paris: letter from Marcos Espinal/STB Partnership
  Letter to the TB/HIV listserv & international treatment preparedness group on yahoo.
• Draft Report of 7th Stop TB Partnership Board Meeting 15 October 2004
• Workshop meeting with Int'l Union Against TB & Lung Diseases (IUATLD)
  Post-meeting letter to the TB/HIV listserv & international treatment preparedness group on yahoo.

Workshops

Treatment Action Group and Stop TB Partnership Satellite Workshop on MDR- and XDR-TB in the Context of HIV Infection
TB/HIV Satellite Workshop, Capetown SA, November 2007
1. Agenda for the Satellite
2. Opening Talks
   Haileyesus Getahun, Rhehab Chimzizi
3. First Panel. The Emergence and Prevention of MDR- and XDR-TB
   ◊ Global response plan for MDR- and XDR-TB. Ernesto Jaramillo
   ◊ Impact of M/XDR on TB/HIV coinfected individuals and communities. Neel Gandhi
   ◊ How NTPs can prevent and manage DR TB. Carmelia Basri
   ◊ Community based treatment support and case detection strategies and how can they prevent and address DR TB. Boniswa Seti

   Second Panel. Scaling up M/XDR Diagnostics & Treatment: Addressing the Bottlenecks

   ◊ Lab Capacity Strengthening: What is being done? Abigail Wright

   ◊ How can countries/sites increase the success of their GLC applications? Hind Satti

   Third Panel. TB Research & Development: Strategies to Move Forward

   ◊ Current TB Diagnostics Research. Richard O'Brien
   Current TB Treatment Research. Mel Spigelman

   ◊ Strategies to Expedite DR TB R&D: Tibotec Experience. David McNeeley

   ◊ Beyond Market Forces: Creating New Incentives for TB R&D. Tido von Schoen-Angerer

   Action Needed Against TB/HIV and the MDR- and XDR-TB Crisis

   article in current TAGline about the Cape Town meeting

   Participant Contacts

• Five presentations from Coalition for TB Free NYC community forum.
  held February 15, 2007 • require viewer
  1. Who gets TB in NYC? 2. Why is TB on the rise globally? 3. What are some ways TB tools are being improved? 4. Call to Action: Advocating for TB Control 5. A Call for Community Participation in TB Control
• Screen for TB: A simple questionnaire can save the lives of PLWHA
pre-conference workshop at the XII International Conference on AIDS, Toronto
Presentations from the workshop (require powerpoint plugin to view)
Screening tools for downloading (require pdf plugin to view)
Presentations from the TAC/TAG first Africa regional TB/HIV advocacy workshop
held in Cape Town on 19-21 June 2006
Advocacy, prophylaxis and treatment
TB/HIV Operational Research
Collaborative TB/HIV activities and TB diagnosis among PLWHA
Slide presentation from 4th International TB/HIV community workshop
First Africa-Region TB/HIV Advocacy Workshop • June 19-21, 2006 • Cape Town, South Africa
ANNOUNCEMENT & REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS
Note: application is in pdf format. Please fill out and return by April 14, 2006.
Report from the Third International TB/HIV Community Workshop
held in Paris from October 26-29, 2004, in partnership with the Open Society Institute (OSI) TB/HIV advocacy grant competition.
Fourth International TB/HIV Mobilization Workshop Applications | en español | en français
Print application to fill out and send by mail or fax
Third International Workshop Announced
TAG announces the third international TB/HIV community education & mobilization workshop for TB and HIV/AIDS community representatives to learn about TB/HIV coinfection and plan advocacy, education and community mobilization activities to strengthen AIDS and TB control programs in countries affected by the dual TB/HIV epidemics.
Report from the Second International TB/HIV Community Education & Mobilization Workshop
at the 34th International Union Against Tuberculosis & Lung Disease (IUATLD) World Conference on Lung Health
◊ Compte-rendu du 2^ème Atelier international d'éducation et de mobilisation de la communauté concernant la TB et le VIH (TB/VIH)
◊ Informe del II Taller Internacional sobre la Educación y la Movilización Comunitarias en torno al VIH y la Tuberculosis (VIH/TB) por Julie Davids
Parte de la XXXIV Conferencia Mundial de la Unión Internacional contra la Tuberculosis y las Enfermedades Pulmonares (IUATLD) sobre la Salud Pulmonar, 28 de octubre–3 de noviembre de 2003, París (Francia).
Report from the First TB/HIV Coinfection Mobilization Workshop 2002

Links

• www.GlobalHealthReporting.org
  GlobalHealthReporting.org is a project developed and operated by the Kaiser Family Foundation with major support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to provide journalists and others—including researchers, policymakers and nongovernmental organizations—with the latest news and information about HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria worldwide.