CVS tells HIV activists that pharma company Gilead needs to lower price of PrEP drug if it wants it covered
A CVS executive told PrEP4All by email that the $28,000 price on a drug sold for $40 overseas was unacceptable.
October 24, 2025
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CVS Health denies coverage for breakthrough HIV drug, committing 'clear violation' of ACA
CVS Health will not cover Gilead's Yeztugo, generic name lenacapavir (LEN), citing "clinical, financial, and regulatory factors."
August 22, 2025
Twice-yearly injectable lenacapavir, an HIV-prevention drug, reduces risk by 96%
Gilead researchers say lenacapavir “has the potential to be one of the most impactful interventions” in the battle against HIV.
September 13, 2024
The Real Housewives of Gilead
Meet the women who want to bring us back to the Dark Ages -- or to a future envisioned by Margaret Atwood.
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June 27, 2017
FDA Approves Gilead AIDS Drug for Hepatitis B
Gilead Sciences Inc. prepared to expand its reach further beyond AIDS drugs Monday after federal regulators approved the biotech drug maker's signature anti-HIV therapy as a hepatitis B treatment.
August 13, 2008
PrEP4All Claims Gilead Held Back Safer HIV Drug
The activist group wants the federal government to reject a patent extension for Gilead's tenofovir alafenamide, a component of several HIV meds.
December 5, 2019
Gilead Gives $4.5 Million to Trans Groups on Day of Remembrance
The pharmaceutical company formed a transgender board of advisers, which guided how to distribute the historic donation.
November 19, 2019
AOC Grills Gilead CEO on Truvada Cost: 'People Are Dying'
The congresswoman asked why the HIV prevention drug costs nearly $2,000 in the U.S. but only $8 in Australia.
May 16, 2019
Gilead Will Donate Truvada to 200,000 People Annually for 11 Years
The donation amounts to 2.4 million bottles each year -- but activists say it isn't enough.
May 9, 2019
Gilead Made $3 Billion Off Truvada Last Year
The U.S. government, which developed and patented the use of Truvada for PrEP, got nothing.
March 27, 2019
The Women of Gilead Rise Up in The Handmaid's Tale's Second Season
Samira Wiley and Alexis Bledel speak with The Advocate about solidarity, sisterhood, and taking on the patriarchy.
April 25, 2018
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