AIDS activists sue HHS to get Gilead settlement over PrEP patents
A affected person advocacy group is suing the Trump administration for failing to reveal particulars of a latest settlement with Gilead Sciences over the patent rights to a pair of HIV prevention capsules.
The deal, which was reached final January, capped a number of years of litigation that started when the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention argued that it had funded essential tutorial analysis into HIV prevention that later fashioned the idea for the extremely efficient capsules, and that Gilead subsequently infringed its patent rights.
The case was carefully watched as a result of it raised questions concerning the extent to which government-funded analysis ought to result in affordably priced medicines, since affected person advocates complained Gilead charged excessive costs for the capsules — Truvada and a more moderen model referred to as Descovy. The lawsuit raised a difficulty that, at instances, figured within the bigger debate within the U.S. over the rising value of prescribed drugs.
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