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Author Topic: our complicated relationship with pharma  (Read 877 times)

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Offline leatherman

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our complicated relationship with pharma
« on: January 14, 2025, 11:39:53 am »
Here's a good article about a part of the very complicated relationship PLHIV have with pharma. We need the drugs so they have us over a barrel; but we also need meds that work without causing more harm - especially when pharma knows they have better meds - not to mention the harm caused by strategizing development and release for profit and not patient health.

https://marksking.com/family-and-friends/exposed-document-betrayal-of-people-with-hiv/

It was one thing to take less effective meds, with the accompanying horrible side effects, in the early 90s just so we could stay alive; but it's a whole other thing to be taking a med in the 2000s that is known to be less effective with harmful side effects.

I would have posted this in the AIDS Activism section; but the "advocacy" as related in this article isn't the kind of HIV advocacy I would ever condone. The signers on this amicus brief do us all a disservice.
leatherman (aka Michael)

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Re: our complicated relationship with pharma
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2025, 11:48:54 am »
The TDF (Truvada) and delayed release of the updated TAF (Descovy) case.
« Last Edit: January 14, 2025, 11:51:24 am by Jim »
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