In Featured, News by Ged Kenslea July 10, 2021 AIDS care provider’s advocacy campaign targets corporate behemoth CVS for its anti-competitive behavior, notably, buying up health plans like Aetna, and then forcing patients—including HIV patients, who often rely on specialty services from their pharmacists— to obtain their lifesaving medications by mail order or drop shipment Last week, the Supreme Court agreed to take up a class action suit filed by HIV patients who claim that CVS Caremark’s policy requiring them to obtain medications via mail or drop shipment is discriminatory under the Affordable Care Act LOS ANGELES (July 10, 2021) In response to the growing consolidation and increasingly monopolistic behavior in the pharmacy and health care industries, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is launching a new advocacy campaign to take on health and pharmacy giant CVS, the sixth-largest corporation in the world over its anti-competitive business model which squeezes many independent and mom-and-pop pharmacies, some to the point of forcing their closure.