ViiV Healthcare partners with China's Desano to improve access to HIV drugs

2 July 2015

A new partnership has been announcement between ViiV Healthcare, the independent HIV-specialist company majority-owned by the UK’s GlaxoSmithKline (LSE: GSK) and partnered with Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) and Shionogi (TYO: 4507), and Shanghai, China-based Desano Pharmaceuticals.

The agreement will offer an additional source of the dolutegravir active pharmaceutical ingredient (API), and will allow ViiV Healthcare to offer a competitive supply of the finished product (dolutegravir 50mg, marketed under the name Tivicay) for China and a number of developing countries, subject to national approvals.

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