We have a leader here, Mr. Sarbanes, who has led in the role of money and politics.

I also have to give credit to the countless advocates and activists that have been uplifting the issue of the price of Truvada and PrEP.

It shows that everyday people, no matter your age or your identity, can make changes.

I want to thank you for your leadership.

Finally, let me note that this is a bipartisan issue. HIV has no boundaries.

We want the prices to come down. We want truth.

I blame us.

How can our system allow a company to take a drug treatment that was developed with taxpayer funds and abuse this monopoly to charge such astronomical prices?

This treatment is available in other countries for much, much less. In Australia, patients pay less than $7 a pill.

So I think it is important that we notice here that we the public, we the people developed this drug, we paid for this drug, we led and developed all of the grounding patents to create PrEP, and then that patent has been privatized.

What Amy says, what Ms. Vilela says is this is a commodity. Her daughter's life was not.