NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pfizer Inc announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved SelzentryTM (maraviroc) tablets, the first in a new class of oral HIV medicines in more than 10 years. Selzentry blocks viral entry into white blood cells, significantly reducing viral load and increasing T-cell counts in treatment-experienced patients infected with a specific type of HIV.
“There is a profound need for new medicines to treat HIV. In the United States, thousands of patients living with HIV are running out of effective medications that can control their virus,” said Dr. Joseph Feczko, Pfizer’s chief medical officer. “The approval of Selzentry for treatment-experienced patients is a significant breakthrough, and we continue its development in a spectrum of other patients living with HIV/AIDS.”
