WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the world’s largest AIDS organization and an outspoken advocate against runaway drug pricing for lifesaving HIV/AIDS and other medications, today called on Gilead Sciences, Inc., the manufacturer of Sovaldi (and its combination form, Harvoni), a new treatment for Hepatitis C, to lower the price of this drug for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to the $900 price per person for Sovaldi it charges India and other countries. Currently, the VA pays nearly $50,000 per person for Sovaldi. The price of Harvoni, a combo drug of which Sovaldi is the primary ingredient, is expected to cost the VA and other payers even more.
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