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2015 is stacking up to have a Summer of Interferon-Free hepatitis C drug approvals! So far we’ve had the following approvals for provincial Pharmacare coverage (addition to provincial “formulary”):
On June 29th, Ontario covered AbbVie’s Holkira Pak™ for genotype 1, on July 24th, Quebec covered both Gilead’s Harvoni™ and AbbVie’s Holkira Pak™ for genotype 1. And on World Hepatitis Day, July 28th British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Yukon started to cover AbbVie’s Holkira Pak™ for genotype 1! On August 6th we heard that AbbVie’s Holkira Pak™ would be covered in Nova Scotia.
And…today, August 20, we received great news that another upcoming drug, daclatasvir (Daklinza™) from Bristol-Myers Squibb, which has potential to treat all genotypes including hard-to-treat genotype 3, has received a Notice of Compliance from Health Canada. Read full press release: