{"id":20056,"date":"2019-05-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/09\/generic-version-of-truvada-available-in-u-s-by-sept-2020\/"},"modified":"2019-05-10T16:10:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T16:10:11","slug":"generic-version-of-truvada-available-in-u-s-by-sept-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/09\/generic-version-of-truvada-available-in-u-s-by-sept-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Generic Version of Truvada Available in U.S. by Sept. 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Activists have been urging Gilead to make the generic drug more widely available<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY, May 9, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; A generic version of the HIV preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drug Truvada will be available in the United States by September 2020, a year earlier than expected, according to Gilead Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gilead reached an agreement with Teva Pharmaceuticals in 2014 to allow the early launch of a generic version of Truvada into the market in 2020, a year earlier than required,&#8221; Douglas Brooks, Gilead executive director for community engagement, wrote in an email shared with <i>NBC News<\/i> by the advocacy group PrEP4All.<\/p>\n<p>A month&#8217;s supply of generic Truvada is available in countries around the world for as little as $70, but the drug costs $1,600 to $2,000 in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Activists launched a campaign to convince Gilead to make the generic drug more widely available to combat the global HIV epidemic, <i>NBC News<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/feature\/nbc-out\/generic-hiv-prevention-drug-coming-2020-gilead-says-n1003391\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>NBC News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activists have been urging Gilead to make the generic drug more widely available<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":20072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-20056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}