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Pfizer Licenses Selzentry to Non-Profit for HIV Prevention

In this other article, it is stated that: "(Pfizer) has agreed to give IPM a royalty-free license to maraviroc, its newly-approved HIV treatment, as a microbicide for the prevention of HIV infection."

http://sev.prnewswire.com/infectious-disease-control/20080130/DC1277730012008-1.html

Why would Pfizer give away a non-royalty bearing license to use Selzentry as a prophylactic - which could actually reduce its use as an HIV therapy??

If they thought that Selzentry would be successful as a prophylactic ... wouldn't they want to hang onto it??

An attack of 'morals'??

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