The health department has asked drugmakers to submit prices, and how much they can make, of the two-monthly anti-HIV jab, CAB-LA — just 18 days after it accepted a donation of 231,000 doses from the US government. The shot could cut down our new HIV infections by more than a quarter over 20 years.
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