Off topic: HIV drug developed and patented by US govt costs 1780 dollars but only 8 in Australia

AOC grills pharma exec about why the HIV-prevention drug Prep costs $8 in Australia costs $1,780 in the USA

Costs are per month of use

AOC = Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Truvada (Prep) earns Gilead $3,000,000,000/year

See also Vitamin D Life

• Extremely Big Pharma - many studies

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• More than half of the FDA entire budget now comes from Big Pharma, not the govt. – Sept 2018

• US Healthcare is 2X more expensive than in other countries - what can be done

• Insulin prices and usage are soaring

  HIV

• Overview HIV and vitamin D

• HIV patients helped by monthly 120,000 IU of Vitamin D – RCT Oct 2017

• Treatment of HIV in youths helped by 7,000 IU of vitamin D for 1 year – RCT July 2014

• Those with HIV who doubled their vitamin D levels reduced their chance of death by 47 percent – Oct 2013

  Truvada Side Effects include

nausea, vomiting, stomach pain, diarrhea, headache, dizziness, depression, joint pain, bone loss

Truvada bone loss prevented by Vitamin D

"Feasibility of vitamin D supplementation interventions to mitigate HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis-related bone mineral density loss: a cross-sectional survey" - 2018   📄 Download the PDF from Vitamin D Life