Why Gilead’s ‘generosity’ on HIV jab belies a betrayal

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Why Gilead’s ‘generosity’ on HIV jab belies a betrayal
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The old trick shows that Big Pharma has more interest in making money than in saving lives

Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Six generic drug companies have signed voluntary licensing deals to make the HIV prevention injection lenacapavir, royalty free, for 120 low-income countries where the burden is high. have signed voluntary licensing deals to make the HIV prevention injection lenacapavir, royalty free, for 120 low-income countries where the burden is high.

Plus, these governments will be forced to cough up whatever Gilead charges them to get the drug to their people because the six licensing deals include anGilead’s latest agreements also block any other routes governments might take to buy the medicine cheaply. What’s even more tragic is that communities that Big Pharma exploits are the same communities we so desperately need to be confident in clinical research.

If government-backed research institutes do not secure deals that ensure participants get post-trial access, they reduce themselves to mere Big Pharma lap dogs.

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