Gilead’s 300$ a bottle (900$/12 weeks) announcement for blockbuster anti Hepatitis C drug ‘Sovaldi’ comes at a time when Gilead is under tremendous pressure internationally from both governments and civil society organisations to decrease their exorbitant pricing (see here, here and here). In Part I of this post I described developments in India in relation to the drug. In this post I look at the larger picture and situate Gilead’s pricing decisions in the context of targeted advocacy as well as the existence of and...
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