Gilead Announces FDA Approval Of New HIV Treatment Complera

Aug. 10, 2011, 9:49 PM UTC

Gilead Sciences Inc. Aug. 10 announced that the Food and Drug Administration has approved the HIV drug Complera (emtricitabine/rilpivirine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate).

The Foster City, Calif.-based company described Complera as a complete single-tablet regimen for the treatment of HIV-1 infection in treatment-naive adults. The company said Complera combines three antiretroviral medications in one daily tablet: Gilead’s Truvada, which is a fixed-dose combination of the two nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, emtricitabine and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate; and Tibotec Pharmaceuticals’ non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor, rilpivirine (marketed as Edurant in the United States by Johnson & Johnson unit Janssen Therapeutics).

Gilead said that Truvada and ...

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