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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11120

12 July 2014
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) health
Fifteen member states unite to push down price of Sovaldi vaccine

Brussels, 11/07/2014 (Agence Europe) - Fifteen European countries have come together “for the first time”, on the initiative of France, to negotiate a reduction in the price of a new hepatitis C drug, Sovaldi, French Minister for Health Marisol Touraine announced on Thursday 10 July. Sovaldi, developed by the American laboratory Gilead, is a new hepatitis C treatment, but its stratospheric cost (more than €50,000 for a 12-week course) has alarmed the health authorities, which have...

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