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Husband: David Barr
Founding member of Treatment Action Group (TAG)
AIDS/TB, PEPFAR, Gates Foundation
> 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.
https://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/about-us/history/
> In the May 2002 TAGline, David Barr writes: “Research advocacy is a luxurious area of activism. Activists from poorer communities often have to work on health care access, housing needs, and other priorities before they can turn their attention to the rarified world of clinical research.” This is an undeniably legitimate but limited analysis of barriers to the participation of people with HIV from communities hardest hit by HIV. By looking at the ways people get involved in movements and groups, the ways we prioritize and describe treatment activist campaigns, and examining what worked in the development of leaders in the histories of ACT UP/New York and other groups, we can meet this challenge for the next decade of AIDS activism.
https://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/resources/tagline/tagline-2002/the-way-forward/