Mark Harrington (activist)
Encyclopedia
Mark Harrington is an AIDS researcher, and co-founder and policy director of the Treatment Action Group
(TAG), in 1992.
He graduated from Harvard College
in 1983.
He started as an AIDS
activist with ACT UP in 1988.
Treatment Action Group
Treatment Action Group is a US-based HIV/AIDS activist organization formed in 1991 involved with worldwide efforts to increase research on treatments for HIV and for deadly co-infections that affect people with HIV, such as hepatitis C and tuberculosis...
(TAG), in 1992.
He graduated from Harvard College
Harvard College
Harvard College, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is one of two schools within Harvard University granting undergraduate degrees...
in 1983.
He started as an AIDS
AIDS
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...
activist with ACT UP in 1988.
Works
- "Viral Load in Vancouver" 1996
- "Hit HIV-1 hard, but only when necessary", Mike Harrington, Charles C.J. Carpenter M.D., The Lancet (355, 17 June 2000)
- "World Health Organization HIV Treatment Guidelines Evolve", The Body Winter 2010
External links
- "MARK HARRINGTON WAS WRONG: ACT UP & TAG: A Brief History of AIDS Treatment ACTAGanism", LGNY, March 1996, Raan Medley