The Trump administration recently revived the “most favored nation” policy from 2020, which would link the U.S. prices of drugs to the lowest price paid in other developed countries.
If this system had been in place 20, 10, or even five years ago, it’s possible that lenacapavir never would have made it to market—to say nothing of the countless other drugs for AIDS and other diseases that have been developed in recent years.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a shot last month that effectively prevents HIV. At-risk people simply need to receive the injection every six months. The new drug, called lenacapavir, comes almost exactly 44 years after the first case of AIDS was reported by what’s now known as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC.
The progress that science has made against HIV/AIDS is nothing short of remarkable. For much of the last four decades, a diagnosis of HIV/AIDS was a death sentence.
Nothing contained in this blog is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Pacific Research Institute or as an attempt to thwart or aid the passage of any legislation.
A Promising New AIDS Drug Highlights The Dangers Of Price Controls
Sally C. Pipes
The Trump administration recently revived the “most favored nation” policy from 2020, which would link the U.S. prices of drugs to the lowest price paid in other developed countries.
If this system had been in place 20, 10, or even five years ago, it’s possible that lenacapavir never would have made it to market—to say nothing of the countless other drugs for AIDS and other diseases that have been developed in recent years.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a shot last month that effectively prevents HIV. At-risk people simply need to receive the injection every six months. The new drug, called lenacapavir, comes almost exactly 44 years after the first case of AIDS was reported by what’s now known as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC.
The progress that science has made against HIV/AIDS is nothing short of remarkable. For much of the last four decades, a diagnosis of HIV/AIDS was a death sentence.
Read the op-ed here.
Nothing contained in this blog is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Pacific Research Institute or as an attempt to thwart or aid the passage of any legislation.