ViiV data serves as response to Gilead in HIV battle
This week’s Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) has come at a timely moment in an intensifying battle between two players, in particular, for market share in the HIV space.
US biotech Gilead Sciences (Nasdaq: GILD) and Viiv Healthcare, the HIV specialist that is majority-owned by UK drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (LSE: GSK), are battling not just in the courtroom, but also through data presentations showing the benefits of their therapies.
At CROI, Gilead has offered trial results to show the potential benefits of switching to its newly-approved triple therapy Biktarvy (bictegravir/emtricitabine/tenofovir alafenamide) from ViiV’s Triumeq (abacavir/dolutegravir/lamivudine), in virologically suppressed adults with HIV.
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