Generic version of a drug already on the market, which can suppress and prevent HIV, would still yield 30% profit if the current price was slashed, researchers say
  • randon31415@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Knowing you have HIV decreases transmission by 90%. Giving antivirals decreases transmission by 99%. Back in the early 2000 I saw a paper saying we could make HIV tests for 10 cents a person if we wanted to produce enough for every person on the planet (0.1810^9= $800 million). That was something that could have been done back then. $40 a vaccine would be a price tag of $320 billion

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
    4·
    3 months ago

    I lost so many friends and lovers to AIDS in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Even my mom’s first husband died of AIDS. A vaccine took way too long, and now that there is one this is what they do?!? The patents need to be voided and the vaccine distributed free of charge by amy clinic or hospital that takes federal funds.