Gilead reaches settlement over kickbacks to doctors for prescribing “anti-HIV” drugs
Has this company no shame?
This will be a short post—I want to alert you to more shenanigans on the part of Gilead Sciences. The following piece appeared in Claims Journal April 29, 2025:
Gilead Sciences Reaches $202M Settlement Over Kickbacks to Doctors
It seems that the shadiness of this company knows no bounds. Emphasis is mine.
Gilead Sciences agreed to pay $202 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit accusing the drugmaker of civil fraud for paying kickbacks to doctors who agreed to prescribe its HIV drugs.
The settlement announced on Tuesday by U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton in Manhattan resolved charges that Gilead violated the federal False Claims Act by defrauding Medicare, Medicaid and other programs into paying for drugs prescribed by doctors who spoke at and attended Gilead’s promotional speaker programs.
This lawsuit is entirely independent of the various Truvada lawsuits that are ongoing in the United States and Canada. It seems that, in addition to lying about the toxicities of their “lifesaving anti-HIV” drugs, the company has also been paying doctors kickbacks for prescribing said drugs. Oops.
Here are some details of their egregious behavior:
Investigators said that from 2011 to 2017, Gilead provided more than $23.7 million of speaker honoraria, paid for lavish meals at high-end restaurants, and covered travel costs, including to “desirable” locations such as Hawaii and New Orleans, for hundreds of healthcare providers.
According to settlement papers, some kickback recipients repeatedly attended programs on the same topic, including a group of 10 Manhattan doctors who spoke at or attended together approximately 384 dinners.
That’s over a year’s worth of daily lavish dinners. It also makes you wonder how concerned these practitioners are about their patients’ health. However, it does make a certain sort of sense that these doctors would have to be literally bribed to prescribe patients these toxic drugs. If the drugs were so great and the doctors so selfless, would this have happened? Perhaps. The drugs of concern in this lawsuit are “Biktarvy, Complera, Descovy, Genvoya, Odefsey and Stribild;” not so coincidentally the very drugs that are under fire for their extreme toxicities that include kidney failure, bone density loss, and HAND, or “HIV associated neurocognitive disorder,” a neurological condition that is likely caused by the drugs and not “HIV.”
The article concludes with the depressing statement that “Gilead’s HIV drug sales totaled $19.61 billion in 2024, up 8% from a year earlier.” I wonder what will happen when the Truvada lawsuits are finally settled or brought to court; additionally, Gilead has lenacapavir in the pipeline, which is expected to be a cash cow for the company, and which has already been associated with immune reconstitution syndrome (IRIS), before it has even been brought to market. I cannot imagine a future in which lenacapavir does NOT come under fire for toxicities of its own, given that it’s a once-yearly injectable that must necessarily contain significant doses of these toxic chemicals. Has this company no shame? Apparently not.
Stay tuned; things are bound to get very interesting in the world of “anti-HIV” medicine.
By the way it is interesting that the sales of these drugs keep going up but the hiv incidence remains flat . I just looked up the yearly incidence rate of new “infections” in the US over the past 10 years and it’s essentially flat. It prep use has been steadily increasing in “at risk” populations over the same period. Prep doesn’t seem to be changing the yearly flat “new infection” rate in the US.
Kary Mullis: Martyr or Menace? https://mikestone.substack.com/p/kary-mullis-martyr-or-menace
I remember being astonished that the inventor of the very technology used to “confirm” positive HIV “antibody” tests not only challenged the entire HIV/AIDS dogma but also believed his invention should never be used as the sole means to diagnose “infectious” diseases. Kary Mullis’s account of his awakening resonated deeply with me. He described his desperate search for a single scientific paper—or even a collection of them—that could definitively prove HIV as the “probable cause of AIDS.” His fruitless quest, including a direct confrontation with HIV “co-discoverer” Luc Montagnier, is detailed in the foreword to prominent retrovirologist and HIV/AIDS skeptic Peter Duesberg’s book Inventing the AIDS Virus.