AOC grills pharma exec about why the HIV-prevention drug Prep costs $8 in Australia costs $1,780 in the USA
Costs are per month of use
AOC = Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Truvada (Prep) earns Gilead $3,000,000,000/year
See also VitaminDWiki
- Extremely Big Pharma - many studies
- "Return on investment for Obamacare lobbying by Big Pharma = $44 profit for every $1 spent"
- More than half of the FDA entire budget now comes from Big Pharma, not the govt. – Sept 2018
- US Healthcare is 2X more expensive than in other countries - what can be done
- Insulin prices and usage are soaring
HIV
- Overview HIV and vitamin D
- HIV patients helped by monthly 120,000 IU of Vitamin D – RCT Oct 2017
- Treatment of HIV in youths helped by 7,000 IU of vitamin D for 1 year – RCT July 2014
- Those with HIV who doubled their vitamin D levels reduced their chance of death by 47 percent – Oct 2013
Truvada Side Effects include
nausea, vomiting, stomach pain, diarrhea, headache, dizziness, depression, joint pain, bone loss
Truvada bone loss prevented by Vitamin D
"Feasibility of vitamin D supplementation interventions to mitigate HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis-related bone mineral density loss: a cross-sectional survey" - 2018  Download the PDF from VitaminDWiki