Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Oct 2025
PHARMAC proposes changes to make it easier to access HIV medicines
1 October 2025 - New Zealanders living with, or at risk of, HIV could soon benefit from proposed changes to how HIV medicines are funded and supplied.
PHARMAC is consulting on a proposal to remove Special Authority and Hospital Indication criteria for all funded antiretroviral medicines for HIV. If approved, from 1 December 2025, people would no longer need to meet these criteria to access funded HIV medicines.
