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Drug that costs $1200, and sells for $5 in India 6 years 4 months ago #6816

Alsdad Offline Moderator Posts: 335 Thank you received: 294 Karma: 5	www.smh.com.au/business/the-drug-that-co...20160102-glya8a.html
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Drug that costs $1200, and sells for $5 in India 6 years 4 months ago #6818

darbara Offline Elite Member Posts: 176 Thank you received: 192 Karma: 0	BUT still $ 5 is a lot of money for MOST Indians. A checkout girl in a supermarket earns $ 125 a month. A driver OR cleaner in a company job earns $ 175 a month. USD I mean. In short too expensive the world over. I cant afford to buy it in my country being an average citizen ( cost € 60000) and an Indian cant afford to buy it in his ( cost $ 1000).
	Treatment naive F 3/4 Genotype 1 a & b V/L 17 MILLION Started Harvoni 11th Dec 2015 for 12 weeks 4 weeks VL UND 6 WEEKS ALT 32, AST 34 EOT 03/03 2016 ! UND ALT 34, AST 26 04.04.2016 SVR 4 26.05.2016 SVR 12 16.08.2016 SVR 24 The administrator has disabled public write access. The following user(s) said Thank You: coral, Debs, Gaj

Drug that costs $1200, and sells for $5 in India 6 years 4 months ago #6827

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Politicians, especialliy in the US, are always complaining about certain countries violating peoples' basic human rights: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It seems like allowing a company to charge more than people can afford to pay for a life-saving medication would qualify as a human rights violation.
Maybe thats just me.
I don't know.
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G 1a F-1
Started tx 10/23/15 (Meso sof & led) ALT 48 AST 28 v/l 1.6 mil
11/17/15 4 wk lab ALT 17 AST 16 <15
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12/16/15 8 wk lab ALT: 15 AST: 13 V/l UND
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Drug that costs $1200, and sells for $5 in India 6 years 4 months ago #6828

sonix Offline Elite Member Music is life Posts: 165 Thank you received: 359 Karma: 2	The distribution of wealth in the world and particularly the USA is disturbing. It could be described as inhumane. It is way worse than most people imagine - Viral Video Shows the Extent of U.S. Wealth Inequality
	M 61yo HCV+ ~ 30 yrs Gt1a F2 VL 223,000 ALT 54 AST 42 Tx start Sof/Dac 17Dec15. SVR4 at 7Apr16 ALT 22 AST 22 SVR12 at 9Jun16 ALT 23 AST 25 Melbourne, Australia The administrator has disabled public write access. The following user(s) said Thank You: DrJames, Vororo, 2b, mgalbrai, zhuk, Greedfighter

Drug that costs $1200, and sells for $5 in India 6 years 4 months ago #6829

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Yep,
Money equals power and the money is in a very few hands.
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G 1a F-1
Started tx 10/23/15 (Meso sof & led) ALT 48 AST 28 v/l 1.6 mil
11/17/15 4 wk lab ALT 17 AST 16 <15
11/18/15 Started Harvoni
12/16/15 8 wk lab ALT: 15 AST: 13 V/l UND
1/14/16 Fin. Tx
7/07/16 UND SVR 24

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Drug that costs $1200, and sells for $5 in India 6 years 4 months ago #7493

Paul-Jarman-facebook Offline Moderator The gypsy woman told my mother Before I was born Posts: 383 Thank you received: 659 Karma: 9	The initial study may have been done at cardiff and copied Some Euro doctors challenging patent. usuncut.com/class-war/hepatitis-drug-cos...n-the-u-s-heres-why/
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Drug that costs $1200, and sells for $5 in India 6 years 4 months ago #7506

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I read a very similar article a few days ago Paul:

www.alternet.org/economy/pill-cures-hepa...ive-america-its-1000

I didn't previously link to it because it contains some serious factual errors. The drug on sale in India is not the one developed at Cardiff Uni, it's a licensed copy of the Gilead one, as we all know. The drug developed at Cardiff Uni is INX-189, which ended up being taken on by BMS and re-named BMS-986094:

www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/54235-purcha...-over-hepatitis-drug

It was a disaster for BMS, and they dropped it during trials after one patient died of heart failure and several others became seriously ill:

www.natap.org/2012/HCV/080312_01.htm

BMS eventually settled US$80 million out of court:

www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324...04578261782310743030

On a side note does anyone know how BMS are getting on with their Daclatasvir+Asunaprevir+Beclabuvir DAA combination therapy?

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Drug that costs $1200, and sells for $5 in India 6 years 4 months ago #8437

DrJames Offline Platinum Member Posts: 1980 Thank you received: 7261 Karma: 111	Here is the Phase 3 for UNITY-2 www.natap.org/2014/AASLD/AASLD_23.htm So the results are ok but Daclatasvir+Asunaprevir+Beclabuvir appears to need RIBA to get to the results delivered by other combinations.
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Drug that costs $1200, and sells for $5 in India 6 years 4 months ago #8447

Greedfighter Offline Platinum Member Posts: 609 Thank you received: 1732 Karma: 21	Great video Sonix! This is why I "outsourced" my Meds to Bangladesh. The top 1% can bite me
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