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Gilead Press Release - April 04, 2003

"Gilead Launches Access Program to Provide Anti-HIV Therapy Viread in 68 Developing Countries at No Profit"

"Gilead also is participating with Family Health International, with the support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, in a multinational study to evaluate the potential use of Viread as a method of preventing transmission of HIV."

https://www.gilead.com/news-and-press/press-room/press-releases/2003/4/gilead-launches-access-program-to-provide-anti-hiv-therapy-viread-in-68-developing-countries-at-no-profit

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Company Statement - 12/6/16

"Gilead Recognized as Top Corporate Philanthropist in Funders Concerned About AIDS Report"

FOSTER CITY, Calif., December 6, 2016

Had Gates in their thought processes.

https://www.gilead.com/news-and-press/company-statements/top-corporate-philanthropist

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Press Release - March 04, 2018

"Gilead Announces Data from New Preclinical Study Evaluating a Combination of an Investigational TLR7 Agonist and an Investigational HIV Envelope Targeting Antibody in SHIV-Infected, Virally Suppressed Monkeys"

FOSTER CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mar. 4, 2018

"This research was supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health."

https://www.gilead.com/news-and-press/press-room/press-releases/2018/3/gilead-announces-data-from-new-preclinical-study-evaluating-a-combination-of-an-investigational-tlr7-agonist-and-an-investigational-hiv-envelope-targe

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Richard J. Whitley, MD (Gilead Board of Directors) works at NIAID.

Dr. Whitley's Gilead biography says, "He is a Distinguished Professor, Loeb Scholar Chair in Pediatrics, Professor of Pediatrics, Microbiology, Medicine, and Neurosurgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham." It also says that he "…currently chairs both the NIAID Recombinant DNA Advisory Council and the NIAID HIV Vaccine Data Safety and Management Board."

https://www.gilead.com/about/leadership/board-of-directors/richard-whitely

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Could not find the board or committee assignments at NIH described in Dr. Whitley's Gilead bio. but did find the following.

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https://www.niaid.nih.gov/research/cetr-locations