ViiV Healthcare and Doctors Without Borders Tussle Over Contract Terms for an HIV Drug

“Pharma price and purchase agreement secrecy has run amok,” Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP tells STAT. “We have mandatory price information on jars of peanut butter in the U.S. but a new shroud of secrecy over contracts worth tens of billions of dollar on life-saving vaccines and medicines. We need transparency, not monopoly-enhancing secrecy.”