GlaxoSmithKline PLC's majority-owned ViiV Healthcare is buying a raft of novel late-stage and early stage HIV assets from Bristol-Myers Squibb Co which it hopes will offer new options for patients who have outlived the utility of other antiretrovirals, thereby expanding ViiV's pipeline and future product sales.
As patients live longer and better with the HIV virus, many are outlasting the utility of various drugs and combination...