Untangling the Web of Antiretroviral Price Reductions 16th Edition

With nearly 13 million people on antiretroviral therapy world-wide, which is less than half the number of people eligible to receive it, the price of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs to put people on treatment remains a critical one.

The 16th edition of Untangling the Web finds that although the price of first- and second-line ARVs have come down thanks to increased generic competition, third-line or salvage regimens remain exorbitantly priced, with middle-income countries such as Armenia paying more than US$13,000 per person per year for raltegravir, just one of the three or four drugs needed in a third-line cocktail.

Patents remain a barrier on newer drugs and in middle-income countries, and will need to be overcome to ensure future access to them.

Additional publications in the Untangling the Web report series are available here.

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