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(GILD) wsj<>FDA Panel Considers HIV Drug For New Use
Advisers to Weigh Pros, Cons of a $14,000-a-Year Drug for Use in People at High Risk of Getting Virus That Causes AIDS

BY JENNIFER CORBETT DOOREN

A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel this week will decide whether to recommend for the first time that certain healthy but at-risk people take a drug to help prevent them from contracting the virus that causes AIDS.

Approval by the agency would mark another milestone in the three-decade effort to combat HIV and AIDS. Huge advances in drugs to treat infection and its symptoms have allowed patients to live significantly longer and healthier lives for a disease that in the 1980s was a death sentence.

On Thursday, an FDA panel will weigh whether Gilead Sciences Inc., which makes the

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