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HIV drug could be made for just $40 a year for every patient

Lenacapavir , sold as Sunlenca by US pharmaceutical giant Gilead, currently costs $42,250 for the first year. The company is being urged to make it available at a thousand times less than that price worldwide.

UNAids said it could “herald a breakthrough for HIV prevention” if the drug was available “rapidly and affordably”.

Given by injection every six months, lenacapavir can prevent infection and suppress HIV in people who are already infected.

In a trial, the drug offered 100% protection to more than 5,000 women in South Africa and Uganda, according to results announced by Gilead last month.

theangriestbird ,

Question for my Beeple: If you could pass any law you wanted, how would you solve the problem of runaway drug costs? There is the complicating factor of “the drug companies need this money for R&D for future drugs”, but clearly it’s gotten out of hand.

Barring something comprehensive like Medicare For All, my thought is there should almost be a new regulatory body created for the purpose of tackling this problem. Force drug companies to provide periodic reports of how much a drug actually costs them to make, and then have a regulated maximum profit margin that drug companies are allowed to take.

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