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Loopy Lisa


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Pablito wrote:

This is the drug I'm on.   

Don't get me started about the price.  Even allowing for capitalism, development costs (or in GS's case the purchase of the company that made Solvadi) and the costs of drugs that don't come to market, 1000 dollars per pill is outrageous...I don't know how the GS board and CEO sleep at night.

If these were HIV drugs or cancer drugs for children the world would be up in arms about it; but because HCV is less well-known and affects mainly stigmatised groups it's seems OK.  Even interferon and ribavrin cost something like $40k before they became generic and they didn't even work that well.  That must have been the bar GS used for pricing.

My friend in the UK contacted HCV through a blood transfusion in the 60s and was awarded £20k via the Skipton fund.  But what he says is bugger the 20k...that won't buy him treatment...he has to wait in line like everyone else.  

Crazy, crazy world.

 Isn't it amazing how expensive these drugs really are! They've already made their money back in bucket loads on Solvadi, let alone the new combination. Its amazing that 200 million people world-wide are infected, which is a damn sight more than H.I.V and kills more yearly, (no offense to our lovely co-infected, you are important too!) for monetary gains. I have been asked if I injected drugs, and I really don't care for that question. It really is unimportant how anyone catches a disease, it is important how we cure and prevent more infections that count.

Money and power verses need and disease. You'd think it would be simple really. :/



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Pablito


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This is the drug I'm on.   

Don't get me started about the price.  Even allowing for capitalism, development costs (or in GS's case the purchase of the company that made Solvadi) and the costs of drugs that don't come to market, 1000 dollars per pill is outrageous...I don't know how the GS board and CEO sleep at night.

If these were HIV drugs or cancer drugs for children the world would be up in arms about it; but because HCV is less well-known and affects mainly stigmatised groups it's seems OK.  Even interferon and ribavrin cost something like $40k before they became generic and they didn't even work that well.  That must have been the bar GS used for pricing.

My friend in the UK contacted HCV through a blood transfusion in the 60s and was awarded £20k via the Skipton fund.  But what he says is bugger the 20k...that won't buy him treatment...he has to wait in line like everyone else.  

Crazy, crazy world.



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44 y.o. male, HCV G4 since 1996, F-scan score 9, F2, Failed prior I/R, finished sof/vel/vox 8 weeks 5/16, pre-treatment VL 2 million, EOT UND, EOT+4 UND, EOT+12 UND.
Loopy Lisa


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I hope it costs less than 2000 a pill!

 

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/gileads-gild-hcv-drug-epclusa-140402864.html



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Genotype: 3b

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I can eat cake again! <3 
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