Martin Shkreli walks back on pledge to lower price of HIV drug Daraprim

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Controversial pharmaceutical boss Martin Shkreli has has decided he’s not going to lower the price of his HIV medication after all. Shkreli’s company Turing Pharmaceuticals announced on Wednesday that it would provide volume discounts of its drug Daraprim to hospitals, but it appears that the company’s $750-a-pill price tag still stands. Turing and Shkreli attracted a firestorm of criticism in September after it was revealed the company had raised the price of Daraprim, a 62-year-old treatment for parasitic infections, to $750 a pill from $13.50 after acquiring it. The medicine once sold for $1 a pill.

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