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It’s Not Just Dosing: Stribild’s Side Effect Profile Could Give It An Edge In HIV Market

 
• By Sue Sutter

Gilead has priced its new 4-in-1 HIV treatment, more commonly referred to as Quad, slightly above the only other integrase inhibitor-based regimen on the market, Merck’s Isentress, but at a 35% premium to its own three-drug combo product, Atripla.

Gilead Sciences Inc.’s commercial efforts for the four-drug-in-one HIV treatment Stribild can be expected to highlight a more favorable safety profile compared to its older, cheaper triple-combination product, Atripla, while emphasizing a dosing advantage over protease inhibitor-based regimens and the only other integrase inhibitor on the market.

Stribild received FDA approval on Aug. 27 as a complete treatment regimen for HIV infection in antiretroviral treatment-naïve adults Also see "The New Quad: FDA Approves Gilead’s 4-In-1 HIV...

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