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AL Quoted !!! No. As I understand, a large part of the medication sourced here is produced under a licence agreement with Gilead, so many people here are in fact using legitimate Gilead medicine at reduced prices. I believe the Chinese products are still being made outside any legitimate agreements, but for some reason, Gilead seems to have dropped the ball there. Hopefully they will act more rationally and in all of our interests with the next game-changing drugs they develop.
I thought someone else developed the medication then Gilead purchased it. then preceded to try and rip everyone off Maybe that is a bit harsh
Well, my understanding was that one intent of this site was ensuring that people with HCV would have the opportunity to be cured with the new DAAs that were now available but often unaffordable to them as is currently the situation for a large percentage of the 180 million people worldwide that are afflicted with the disease. Another intent was to provide an open and uncensored forum for the discussion, without fear or favour, of issues relating to both generic and patented meds…….as we should be doing here.
But what I’m seeing in this thread is a lot of assumptions around Jeff’s intentions and then statement of such as fact by others prior to his clarifying his reason for posting.
By the way, I am aware of a number of members who have sourced at least some of their treatment via various big Pharma channels. Some of those people have been among the most helpful and generous members here.
G3a since ’78 – Dx ’12 – F4 (2xHCC)
24wk Tx – PEG/Riba/Dac 2013 relapsed
24wk Tx – Generic Sof/Dac/Riba 2015/16 relapsed
16wk Tx – 12/01/17 -> 03/05/17 NS3/NS5a + Generic Sof
SVR7 – 22/06/17 UND
SRV12 – 27/07/17 UND
SVR24 – 26/10/17 UND
Personally I’m not having a shot at Jeff .
Gilead well maybe. 
As Chester said this is a great site for everybody to come too to gather info on side effects and people’s experiences.
I just hope when and if the cure for the big “C” is discovered it is by a Pharmaceutical Company with some morals and empathy.
Wayne wrote:I thought someone else developed the medication then Gilead purchased it. then preceded to try and rip everyone off.
Maybe that is a bit harshNo, that is the simplistic story which certain personas wish to promulgate, likely as they need someone to hate and Gilead is a convenient target.
The actual story of Sofosbuvir’s development and patenting is extremely complex, and unfortunately, people prefer a satisfying fairy tale of good and evil. Gilead certainly bought into Sovaldi and have made a lot of money, but if you have been looking at the documents, they have also been doing a lot of research along the way, much of which is referenced on this site.
That they tried to rip everyone off? Well, as I’ve mentioned before, outrageous drug prices are not a rare thing in the US, and Gilead only differs in that it has a larger market. In it’s greed, it is so far following the rules of the game as it is played in the US.
As another poster here mentioned, it was George Bush’s policies that in part allowed such price gouging to become a legal and acceptable practice. It has always puzzled me how well Americans have been brainwashed into voting against their own interests, but I probably shouldn’t speak too fast as Australians seem to be catching up in this race to the bottom.
I’m personally happy the Australian Government played hard ball with big Pharma and received the deal they did, they also had a couple of levers as well one being FixHepc and another Homestead Australians were given a great deal .
I just find it strange the US Government doesn’t demand the same.
Anyway we are lucky we live in Countries that will let us import life saving medication.
Your right possibly a bit of scare mongering. But as we all know nothing to fear on this site.
But according to another group of Aussie’s Jeff is always asleep (Wiggles).
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