On Wednesday, ViiV Healthcare a joint venture of GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, and Shionogi announced it would grant a voluntarylicense to the Medicines Patent Pool to enable low-cost supply of a key pediatric HIV medicine in the 118 countries in which 98.7% of all HIV-positive children reside.
The Tennessee pharmacy "has agreed to voluntary surrender its North Carolina pharmacy license, " according to a statement by North Carolina Board of Pharmacy and the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.