People Before Profits

Gilead Sciences is blocking access to a twice-yearly injection (Lenacapavir) that can both treat HIV and prevent new infections. Lenacapavir could become a cornerstone in controlling the global HIV epidemic — improving adherence, reducing transmission, and saving lives.

But instead of sharing this breakthrough, Gilead Sciences is restricting availability through high prices, secret “no-profit” deals, and licensing exclusions that leave dozens of countries behind. This isn’t a failure of science — it’s a failure of policy driven by greed. 

Millions Left Behind

Gilead charges up to $42,000 per year for lenacapavir in the U.S., while most countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia can’t access it at all. Generic versions won’t arrive before 2027 — leaving millions unprotected as Gilead alone decides who gets treated and who waits.

We Can Fight Back 

What Gilead is Doing:
  • Excludes most middle-income countries from its license
  • Keeps prices and terms secret under “no-profit” deals
  • Delays registration and supply in regions hardest hit by HIV

What Needs to Change: 
  • License lenacapavir to all low- and middle-income countries
  • Disclose true prices and delivery timelines
  • Ensure equitable, community-led access for all who need it

Science should serve people — not profits.
Join us in demanding justice: Make Lenacapavir Affordable.

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The poster child for drug company profiteering. 

#PutPeopleFirst

Gilead Sciences wants you to believe they are a benevolent organization working to help people. They say they have bold ambitions to create a healthier world for everyone. In reality, Gilead’s bold ambitions are more focused on creating wealth for their executives and shareholders. 

Price gouging, withholding of safer HIV medicines, and slashing patient assistance programs – this is the real Gilead. Gilead is making billions of dollars in profits off taxpayer-subsidized research for many of the prescription drugs they sell. Gilead doesn’t put people first – unless they are shareholders.

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Gilead’s greed has no limit.
Gilead has made tens of billions of dollars from drug price gouging.
Gilead has opportunistically raised the price to safety net providers of their HIV drugs, creating higher costs for nonprofit HIV clinics all over the country. This has a direct negative impact on HIV care and treatment.
Gilead is being sued by thousands of HIV patients for knowingly selling an inferior drug.
Gilead will pay $246.75 million to customers who purchased the drugs Truvada or Atripla, or any of the two drugs’ generic versions, during a period of about five years. This is just one of many lawsuits attempting to hold Gilead accountable for its relentless greed.
Gilead has slashed its patient assistance program that supported HIV nonprofits.
Greedy Gilead subsidized non-profit community HIV service organizations to help offset their overhead costs. When Truvada went off-patent, they cynically withdrew the subsidies, causing many of them to drastically reduce services.
Gilead has doubled the price of their HIV prevention drug Descovy.
Greedy Gilead kept Descovy, an important HIV drug off the market, until the patent on its inferior Truvada drug expired, so it could squeeze more profit while putting the health of people living with HIV at risk.
Gilead has placed illegal restrictions on 340B access to increase their profits.
Gilead placed unlawful restrictions on 340B contract pharmacy programs, a move that greatly reduces the number of prescriptions that nonprofit safety net care providers can fill for patients and clients.
Gilead jeopardizes the ability of safety-net providers to provide services & help patients.
Gilead has unilaterally stopped giving safety net providers access to discounted drug prices for their patients who fill their prescriptions at their provider’s contracted pharmacy. This brazenly flouts federal law.
Gilead priced several HIV & hepatitis C drugs out of reach for people in developing countries.
Gilead refuses to register some medications in developing countries, and consistently uses its patent monopolies to block attempts to introduce cheaper, generic versions of its medicines.

It’s Time to Put an End To Corporate Greed

AIDS Advocates Lead the Way

AIDS Healthcare Foundation led a rally and protest at drug maker Gilead Sciences’ headquarters in Foster City, CA; Washington, DC; and Miami, FL. The protest targeted Gilead’s move to undermine safety net providers’ access to 340B drug pricing program benefits. Gilead now becomes the 15th drug company to illegally restrict access to certain drugs.
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Thirty countries across Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe banded together in solidarity this past June by launching the "30 Days, 30 Countries" campaign – 30 consecutive days of advocacy against #GreedyGilead’s high drug prices, blocking access to generic medicines via its patent monopolies, and its overall shameful profiteering. Check out the video below of all the actions!
Click here to read more about all the advocacy actions that took place throughout 30 countries in June.

Gilead has priced several of its HIV and hepatitis C drugs out of reach for many people, refused to register some medications in developing countries, and consistently uses its patent monopolies to block attempts to introduce cheaper, generic versions of its medicines. 

AHF is taking its grassroots campaign global to raise awareness about Gilead’s shameful practices and calling on the company to do the following:

  • Stop evergreening patents on existing HIV/AIDS drugs like Truvada – this is exploitation, not innovation.
  • Open the license for the generic production of the hepatitis C drug Harvoni to all low- and middle-income countries, without exception.
  • For the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic, sell or license remdesivir for generic distribution at a nonprofit price.
  • License technology to produce cryptococcal meningitis to generic manufacturers.
  • Link executive compensation to the impact on positive public health outcomes and access to medicines in developing countries.

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