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When I was 22, I watched a friend become HIV+ cuz he couldn't afford Truvada PrEP which cost s$1,300/m but costs <$6 to make. CDC invented & patented PrEP, but they refused to stop Gilead's price gouging for yrs. Today, the the same thing is happening with remdesivir for COVID.
Last month, @cmorten2 & I showed that not only did (h/t @zainrizvi ) the US government spend >$70 million on developing & inventing the drug, the government is legally entitled to be co-owners of the patents for remdesivir. prep4all.org/news/remdesivir
This means that USG can license remdesivir to generic manufacturers while paying no (or very little) $ to Gilead. Remember remdesivir costs less than $1 to make a dose, yet Gilead charges over $350 a dose for it. Our government could stop this price gouging today, but will they?
Please support and follow @PrEP4AllNow to learn more about our work to ensure that everyone can access the HIV And COVID-19 medications they need!
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This is an important q from @mynameisjro. The convo around physical distancing reminds me a lot of the pre-PrEP conversations about HIV prevention. THREAD but tl;dr u can shame as much u want, but it doesn't change the fact that our methods of COVID control are not sustainable.
I am NOT saying we should stop physical distancing. But the idea that we can ask people to not see friends, lovers, family etc. for a basically unlimited period of time is BS. Let's not repeat the mistakes of the HIV epidemic in our response to this plague. 2/n
1 of the reasons the HIV epidemic was allowed to run out of control in US queers starting in the early 90s is because we were more focused on shaming queer ppl than finding effective ways to prevent HIV. And a lot of that had to do with the shame around "barebacking". 3/n
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@Surgeon_General @POTUS @NIAIDNews @HRSAgov @IHSgov @VP @gregggonsalves @fcraw4d Respectfully, that is bullshit. HIV epidemics in PWIDU are not "unprecedented" and interventions to bring them under control, like needle exchange, have been well understood since the 1980s. You and @VP could of implemented needle exchange sooner, but didn't, so Hoosiers suffered
@Surgeon_General @POTUS @NIAIDNews @HRSAgov @IHSgov @VP @gregggonsalves @fcraw4d 2. The idea that you did not know that SC was at risk for an HIV epidemic is also BS. Increases in overdoses had been happening in IN since 2004, local officials recommended needle exchange in 2008, there was a huge HCV outbreak in IN in 2010-11, but still no needle exchange.
@Surgeon_General @POTUS @NIAIDNews @HRSAgov @IHSgov @VP @gregggonsalves @fcraw4d Even in the midst of the peak of the epidemic, more than two months after it was identified @VP refused to allow needle exchanges, preferring to "pray", rather than understand science. This is not success.
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