Celebrities join campaigners in call for cheaper version of ‘gamechanger’ HIV drug for poorer countries
Letter urges US company Gilead Sciences to ‘shape history’ by providing fair access
Former world leaders, celebrities and a Nobel prize-winning scientist who helped discover HIV have written to a leading pharmaceutical company to urge it to make a “gamechanger” HIV medicine available to people living outside wealthy countries.
The US company Gilead Sciences has been urged to “shape history” by avoiding a repeat of the “horror and shame” of the early years of the Aids pandemic, when 12 million lives were lost in poorer parts of the world after effective drugs became available, because the medicines were not affordable.
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