Tracy Swan, an HIV/AIDS activist since
1990, has been a direct service provider at HIV clinics, syringe exchange and
drug treatment programs, methadone clinics, and homeless shelters. She has
worked extensively with people living with, or at risk for HIV and hepatitis C
virus (HCV).
Tracy's
work includes HIV prevention, counseling and testing, treatment education and
access work, and curriculum and policy development. In 1998, she created a
groundbreaking hepatitis C education and services program at the Cambridge
Health Alliance. Tracy
is a member and former board president of the AIDS Treatment Activists
Coalition.
Tracy
joined the Treatment Action Group in 2003. She continues to work with
other activists, US and European regulators, researchers, and pharmaceutical
industry representatives to monitor clinical trial design, as well as to
establish regulatory guidance for hepatitis C drug development. Tracy serves as Expert Advisor to the US Food and Drug Administration and writes extensively on
HIV and hepatitis C co-infection issues. In 2005, the US Health Resource
Services Administration commissioned her to write the first definitive
technical guide to providing hepatitis C education, care, and treatment at the
country's publicly funded HIV clinics.
