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TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
FROM: Contra
Supervisor Nancy Fanden Costa
March 31, 1987 Costa
County
AIDS TREATMENT DRUG
SUBJECT:
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATIONS) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION:
That the Health Services Department be requested by the
Board to give a report on the recently approved drug,
Retrovir which has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration and added to the Medi-Cal drug formulary in
California.
That the Health Services Department contact the manufacturer
for information on how to apply for permission to prescribe
the drug, Retrovir and report back with their findings.
BACKGROUND:
The first drug to show clinical activity against HIV, the
causative agent of AIDS, has been approved by the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration. Several private 'insurers have also
indicated they will cover the costs of the drug, estimated
at $7 ,000 to $10 , 000 for a year ' s supply. AZT, which will
be marketed under the trade name Retrovir, has prolonged the
lives of AIDS and AIDS-related complex patients and reduced
the number and severity of infections. California is the
first state to make the drug available to indigent AIDS
patients. The Department of Health Services estimates that
850 Medi-Cal recipients would receive the drug at a cost of
$300,000 through June 30, and predicts those numbers will
rise to 1, 550 patients and a cost of $7 . 5 million in fiscal
year 1987-88 .
Retrovir is limited in supply and will be made available
initially only to AIDS and AIDS-related complex patients who
have had at least one episode of pneumocystis pneumonia or
have laboratory evidence of a severely depressed immune
system.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE:
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(S)
ACTION OF BOARD ON April 7, 1987 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
X UNANIMOUS (ABSENT I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
AYES: NOES: AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
OF SUPERVISORS ON THE
THEDA/T�E SHOWN.
CC: Health Services Director ATTESTED _ ^ /, 17,
County Administrator Phil Batchelor, Clerk of the Board of
Supervisors and_Countv.Admk9straW
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