Gilead's Stribild to reinforce HIV/AIDS revenues as key patents expire

6 November 2012

US biotech firm Gilead Science’s (Nasdaq: GILD) combination drug Stribild (elvitegravir 150mg/cobicistat 150mg/emtricitabine 200mg/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate 300mg; previously known as the “Quad pill”) is expected to bolster the HIV/AIDS therapeutics market as a number of significant medications go off-patent over the next few years, states business intelligence provider GBI Research in its latest publication.

Forecasts from the firm’s latest report indicate that the global HIV/AIDS therapeutics market will increase in value at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7% between the years 2011 and 2018, from $13.5 billion to $21.8 billion.

As a consequence of the on-going patent-cliff, this predicted growth rate is less than the market experienced in previous years. Between 2004 and 2011, the market experienced a more impressive CAGR of 12.5%, but due to the impending expiry of key medications, including Sustiva (efavirenz) and Reyataz (atazanavir) - both produced by Bristol-Myers Squibb - in 2014 and 2017 respectively, a more modest increase is predicted.

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