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We continue to work at the forefront of the fight against HIV.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n

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HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) continues to be a major public health threat. The virus can lead to AIDS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 1985, our company has been engaged in research and development (R&D) efforts in the prevention and treatment of HIV. Over the years, our scientists have made significant discoveries that changed the way HIV is treated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      \n In 1982, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention first used the term \u201cAIDS,\u201d or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, to describe the clinical syndrome caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Julie Gerberding, chief patient officer, recalls: \u201cI started my training at the University of California at San Francisco at the very beginning of the AIDS epidemic and took care of the earliest patients there who, in retrospect, we recognize had AIDS. It was a truly frightening disease. There were so many unknowns, including how it was transmitted.\u201d<\/small>\n <\/div>\n <\/li>\n
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      \n The HIV\/AIDS community continued to speak out for action. In 1995, Linda Distlerath, former executive director, Public Policy and MSD Research Laboratories Public Affairs, spent time reading letters sent from thousands of AIDS patients and activists urging MSD to produce a treatment for the disease quickly.<\/small>\n <\/div>\n <\/li>\n
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      \n After years of study and development, MSD developed one of the first protease inhibitors. In 1995, prior to FDA approval, in conjunction with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, patients and HIV advocacy groups, MSD offered a program that made its new HIV treatment available at no cost to selective patients before it was commercially available.<\/small>\n <\/div>\n <\/li>\n
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      \n In 2012, The NAMES Project Foundation \u2013 with support from MSD \u2013 launched Call My Name national tour to bring attention to the distressing trajectory of the HIV epidemic in the Black communities in the U.S. The tour included creating new panels for the AIDS memorial quilt and educational workshops in 10 high-prevalence cities.<\/small>\n <\/div>\n <\/li>\n
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      \n Daria Hazuda, VP, infectious disease discovery and chief scientific officer, MSD Exploratory Science Center has led the team working to identify new ways to attack and treat HIV.<\/small>\n <\/div>\n <\/li>\n
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      \n In 2021, we entered into an agreement with Gilead to work together in the global HIV community in the fight against HIV.<\/small>\n <\/div>\n <\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n\n\n\n

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