[4] In 2002, TAG began raising awareness of the impact that tuberculosis (TB) was having on people with HIV in the developing world.
In 2007, the organization received a $4.7 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to foster increased international advocacy on TB/HIV research and treatment.
[5] In 2020, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) stated that that price Cepheid Inc charged for its Xpert Xpress tests was not affordable in countries where people live on less than two dollars a day.
[6] TAG seconded this request, saying that the development of the tests, and their purchase and global deployment, has been done with public funds, while the owners of Cepeid made profits of $3 billion in 2019.
TAG catalyzes open collective action by all affected communities, scientists, and policymakers to end AIDS.