AIDS activists sue HHS to obtain Gilead settlement over patents for HIV prevention pills

AIDS activists sue HHS to obtain Gilead settlement over patents for HIV prevention pills

A patient advocacy group is suing the Trump administration for failing to disclose details of a recent settlement with Gilead Sciences over the patent rights to a pair of HIV prevention pills. The deal, which was reached last January, capped several years of litigation that began when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention argued that it had funded crucial academic research into HIV prevention that later formed the basis for the highly e…