HIV/AIDS Activists March To Protest AstraZeneca’s 340B Contract Pharmacy Cutbacks
Activists aligned with the powerful grassroots group AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) marched yesterday in front of drug manufacturer AstraZeneca’s Wilmington, Del., headquarters building to protest the company’s decision effective Oct. 1 to stop offering 340B pricing on all of its drugs shipped to contract pharmacies, and to let covered entities lacking an in-house pharmacy designate just one contract pharmacy for AstraZeneca 340B-priced drug shipments.
“AstraZeneca has launched an assault on a federal drug discount program essential to the safety net of our nation’s health care,” AHF Director of Advocacy John Hassell told 340B Report. “They are messing with the numerous health care centers and hospitals on the front-lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, and denying discount drugs to these facilities, required by law, just to increase their profits. Why can’t AstraZeneca put people over profits?”
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