Except in the United States, where it will be $1500 a dose.
And you have to take a dose everyday or some horrible side effect will occur.
Or it’ll be banned because it just facilitates the gay lifestyle.
I love your positivism thinking that it would only cost 1500 in the US
That’s $1,500 with a coupon and the highest tier healthcare coverage that very few people outside of tech workers actually get. You don’t want to know what the out-of-pocket cost for something like this would be.
But don’t worry! If you’re fortunate enough to have a job at a good company that pays well, then you can spend $300-$500 of your monthly paycheck to have an insurance company possibly cover up to 80% of the cost! Assuming you are in-network, picked the right plan, followed all the confusing steps to file a claim, and aren’t disqualified by one of their dozens of contingencies.
Land of the free babay!
and aren’t disqualified by one of their dozens of contingencies
one of which is having HIV
Only 1500?
But it won’t be
Oh, it will be, but they’ll mark it up 100,000%
Then it won’t be 25 dollars.
It’ll cost $25 to produce. Selling cost is another matter entirely.
Well that’ll never happen - not when the drug companies can sell $2000 a month or die medication to the inflicted for the rest of their lives.
They have to recoup their costs somehow. Their licence will expire after a while and other companies and make the product and therefore brigdown the price.
It’s nutty this comment is downvoted to oblivion but “infinite breeding here we cum” idiot is getting upvotes.
It’s shit, but it’s true. The company that researched this amazing thing needs to get paid.
Maybe we could just give them $20b to forego their royalties, but then what if a better drug was developed next year which we wanted instead?
Until someone solves the problem of funding medications, this will be the reality.
It’s getting downvoted to oblivion because it ignores many things, namely the fact that a lot of drug research worldwide is state-funded. There are many cases in which pharmaceutical companies use public funds for R&D, and then go on to sell the drug at steep prices, raking in immense profits.
Meanwhile the public has to either cough up the bucks, or wait until the patent expires to have affordable options.
These are generalisations. It’s facebook grandma reasoning.
What elements of the R&D process for this medication were state funded and to what extent?
Loads of industries receive support and incentives and grants from governments, they’re not required to give their product away?
There’s no doubt that large components of the medical industry, and the pharmaceutical industry are unethical profiteers.
It’s also true that the research needs to be funded somehow.
My point is, there is nuance here that most lemmy users just aren’t interested in. It’s not as simple as “pharma bad”.
Pharma C-suite:
that doesn’t sound very profitable
I fucking wish I was kidding
“But how does this expand shareholder value”
I mean, it doesn’t actually end it, to have to keep taking their pill. It’s a subscription model to life.
Pill
You could read the article before you comment lol
You caught me!
Infinite breeding here I cum!
Can we hurry up with this please. I want to cum buckets in my femboy slut. OK, thx, bye.
Thats the spirit !
It costs you significantly leas than 25 bucks to not write shit like that
It costs significantly less to have a sense of humour.
Let the debaucherous degenerate have their fun. Not like they’re hurting anyone, unlike the profligates known as the Mormons.
I came here to write about fucking monkeys
Just wanted you to know 🙂
Im okay with it.
i understand that if it costs $25 to make it then it needs to cost a bit more for supply chain, profits etc (regularly a 50% increase from factory and another 50% increase to retail), but i’ll bet you a $500 bottle of HIV-ending drugs that this wont cost $56.25.
$500 a bottle would be practically giving it away in the US. Most life sustaining meds or the rare cure are sold at unfathomable prices. One of my post-transplant anti rejection meds is $60,000 a month
Let’s call it $100 per head.
Hey Elon, you wanna leave behind a legacy that doesn’t suck?
Here’s your last chance, asshole.
naming your company fucking “Gilead” is some torment nexus-ass shit
the company has been around for a long time, before the book was made famous, one of the first things i saw when applying to lab/biotech was gilead position for scientists. this was already 10 years ago.
they even have transportaiton buses from our city to thier campuses, because its quite far away from a city if you work in biotech.
yeah, I did check dates after, my irony circuits were just too fried when I first read it >.>
Yeah, I grimaced at the name and implications.
At $25-$50/yr with low to no risk of getting HIV I would get the shot. Just like a flu or COVID shot.
Twice yearly shot? Yup, sign me up.
As a medical provider, I’ll probably be required to get it.
If this shot were to become common in the gay community, would that just leave the IV drug community to be the main transmitter of HIV? Could we potentially see HIV effectively eradicated?
I don’t really know bit my supposition would be that eradication isn’t really on the table presently.
This is only a prophylactic. There are people right now with HIV who (excluding a “cure” emerging) will be potentially infectious in 40 or 50 years.
In the short to medium term making this accessible to populations in areas with a high prevalence could avoid millions of infections.
Shit, let’s make it $100 per year so they can make lots of money.
