Texas HIV Drug Lawyer

Gilead Sciences is facing lawsuits and class actions from people who took its older HIV drugs and developed severe bone loss, tooth decay, or kidney side effects.

Need a Texas HIV Drug Lawyer? Collen A. Clark is a true advocate for his clients and is passionate about helping Texans that have been injured or wronged. If you or a loved one was diagnosed with a severe side effect, you should contact our lawyers immediately. You may be entitled to compensation by filing a lawsuit.

UPDATE: Gilead Must Face HIV Drug Injury Lawsuits

May 2019 — A federal judge has ruled that Gilead Sciences Inc. must face a lawsuit from HIV patients who developed severe side effects in their bones and kidneys. Click here to read more.

What is TDF?

Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate (TDF) is an older version of an anti-viral medication that is used to treat people with HIV/AIDS and chronic Hepatitis B. The original TDF formula is a once-daily pill in a 300-mg dose.

Gilead’s HIV Drugs With TDF

What is the Problem?

TDF has low bio-availability, which means it is not absorbed by the body very well. Therefore, TDF must be taken at high doses, which results in a larger amount of TDF being absorbed into the bones and kidneys. This increases the risk of kidney damage, dental problems, and bone thinning or fractures.

HIV Drug Lawsuits

Lawsuits and class actions claim that Gilead knew as early as 2001 that it could develop a safer version of TDF, called TAF (Tenofovir Alafenamide), which can be taken at a far lower dose to reduce the risk of bone, kidney, or dental side effects.

Instead, Gilead is accused of intentionally delaying development of TAF to maximize profits on older TDF drugs, causing injury to thousands of patients who suffered bone and kidney side effects.

HIV Drugs and Kidney Injuries

Chronic kidney disease
Declining kidney function
Acute kidney injury
Acute renal failure
Fanconi syndrome
Kidney failure

HIV Drugs and Bone Injuries

Osteoporosis
Decreased bone mineral density
Osteopenia
Bone fractures
Dental problems
Tooth decay
Tooth loss

HIV Drug Class Action Filed in California

In May 2018, a class action lawsuit was filed against Gilead by two man from Californians living with HIV who suffered bone and kidney damage from taking HIV medications containing TDF:

Lawers claim that Gilead knew as far back as 2001 that TDF was ‘…highly toxic in the doses prescribed and risked permanent and possibly fatal damage to the kidneys and bones,’ and Gilead had a safer alternate tenofovir alafenamide (“TAF”) that it deliberately and maliciously suppressed from the market.

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The Clark Firm has assembled a team of trial lawyers with more than 100 years experience, participation in over 600 jury trials and $260 million in verdicts and/or settlements. Please use the form below to contact our Texas HIV drug lawyers for a free lawsuit review.