Poz.com and Peter Staley are drug company shills, and here’s yet another article that proves it.

Peter Staley fashions himself as an activist, because he used to be one, but the drug companies turned him a long time ago, and today he’s little more than a salesman covering for bad actors who are profiteering off of the AIDS crisis.

Years ago, he started some websites like one called AidsMeds.com, and is affiliated with Poz.com as a “blogger” and “editor” since the two organizations merged.

The problem is that these websites refuse to point out the facts about HIV/AIDS medication, such as that it’s absolutely scandalous and morally bankrupt for such medicine to cost over $120 per pill.

Instead they run articles like this.

85,247 bottles of fake AIDS meds worth $250 million were sold in the US.

Okay, so let’s unwind this. Some of them weren’t fake. They were sold by homeless people and addicts for money. Why do these drugs have street value? Because far too many people in America fall through the cracks and get little to no help paying for their HIV medication other than some programs that are either a drug company smokescreen to prevent real action (which Staley seems fine with) and/or federal government programs that take money from taxpayers and use it to buy drugs from Gilead, that cost thousands per bottle, for which the feds licensed them the patents in the first place in some cases (such as Tenofovir).

Perhaps worst of all, these sites always claim there’s research for cures and vaccines for HIV, but cures don’t make money. Wiping HIV out doesn’t make money. And therefore, it’s not really a goal. Keeping the grift going is the only goal.

Worst of all, the US is the only developed country that doesn’t use the purchasing power of the government to lower drug prices. They can charge anything they want, and if you’ll die without it, too bad so sad.

Every civilized country gets the prices WAY down and then they buy the meds for people, and in a system like that, there’s no “street value” because everyone who needs it already has a bottle that month.

So while I feel for people like Peter Staley, because nobody should have to live with AIDS, I don’t really have any particular respect for turncoats who gave up their fight once it was clear that they’d be okay. And, in my opinion, this is what Peter Staley is to me.

I mean, for me, it’s hard to see things any other way, because if he was an activist, he’d want expanded access to medication through the government stepping in and lowering prices.

Instead, we get homeless people on the street who need food letting their HIV go uncontrolled, selling the medication bottles to people who are also desperate.

In both cases, these people are victims, but Poz.com is completely silent on this aspect of the problem. That the rapacious and piggish drug companies are the reason people are getting bottles full of “anti-psychotics” and over-the-counter painkillers in bottles that have been re-sealed.

In my mind, the deal seems to be… “Peter, you can write about anything you want, as long as you don’t get in the way of the grift.” – Big Pharma

In the HIV/AIDS grift, most doctors are also complicit.

Atripla recently crashed in price, as did Truvada, because they went generic. But crooked doctors won’t use Atripla because they’ve been bribed by Big Pharma to keep their HIV patients on the patent treadmill, and their PrEP patients too.

(Truvada is not a full HIV regimen, but it can be used to prevent HIV.)

Just as generic Truvada hit the scene and looked like it could be the silver bullet against the HIV epidemic (going from over $1,700 a bottle to just $40 with a GoodRX coupon in the process for patients without insurance), the drug companies told doctors to switch everyone to Descovy. ($2,000)

In fact, there’s even a lawsuit that alleges that Gilead knew that Truvada was more likely to cause kidney problems and osteoporosis than Descovy (a newer formulation of Tenofovir) and kept Truvada on the market until the end anyway to maximize revenues.

How do they sleep at night?

On a pile of dirty dirty money!

The patents will make sure that we go forever and most people won’t see any of the usual price benefits of drugs going generic. I know many people with HIV, and none of them take anything that’s generic. As soon as drugs go generic, dirty doctors stop prescribing them.

It works much the same with psychiatric medicine.

It’s amazing that in the arsenal of drugs to manage almost any other condition, competition is king as soon as generics hit the market.

The drug industry uses the same tactics as Microsoft, right up to buying up or buying off the people who report on them.

Nobody can criticize you anymore when they’re practically on the payroll.

Then you become more corporate shitposting that isn’t designed to inform or solve problems, but rather to advertise and manipulate public opinion.