Dr. Teo Shannon

@teoshannon.bsky.social

He/Him. Queer, disabled, HIV+, Latine Poet and Educator. Author of /a chronology of blood/ (U of New Mexico Press, 2025). Co-EIC @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Gilead has announced that lenacapavir, the game-changing HIV prevention drug just approved by the FDA will cost $28,218 USD per person per year. Researchers say a generic version could be made for just $25 per person a year. Capitalism kills.

Lenacapavir is already sold as a treatment for H.I.V. infections that are resistant to other medications, at roughly $42,000 per patient per year. (Few individuals pay the full cost.)

Lenacapavir taken to prevent H.I.V. infection, a regimen called pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, will be sold at a list price of $28,218, according to Gilead.Aids and HIV
‘HIV-ending’ drug could be made for just $25 per patient a year, say researchers
As regulator prepares to approve lenacapavir in the US, campaigners are urging the manufacturer, Gilead, to make it ‘available and affordable for all who need it’

This is for a very specific community: Fountain Pen folks: do not buy from Ferris Wheel Press. ICYMI, they posted an ad on IG for a Harry Potter collab line of pens. During Pride month. And if you’re a FWP affiliate? Might want to reevaluate that with your own morals and ethics.