According to ABC News' latest report, almost 38,000 Americans are diagnosed with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) every year. There are already treatments to prevent HIV infection. In 2012, the Food ...

A new type of PrEP injection, requiring only three injections a year, could be on the way. The FDA approved injections of cabotegravir in 2021 as a form of PrEP, to minimize the risk of acquiring HIV.

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The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a form of PrEP that requires injections every two months, rather than a daily pill. PrEP, or pre-exposure prophylaxis, uses antiretroviral medications ...

A total of 15,000 doses of injectable Lenacapavir (LEN) for use as a pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) against HIV are expected ...

Pharma giant Gilead Sciences has revealed the results of its first, Phase 1 trial into a once-a-year PrEP injection. The company revealed its results at this week’s Conference on Retroviruses and ...

Lenacapavir, a twice-yearly injectable antiretroviral, demonstrated 100% effectiveness for preventing HIV acquisition in a large study of young cisgender women in Africa, Gilead Sciences announced ...

Describing it as an “historic turning point in South Africa’s national healthcare”, President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday ...

In a major breakthrough in the fight against new HIV transmissions, a British pharmaceutical company has announced that PrEP injections every two months have proven more effective than a once-daily ...

A study suggests that a new medication – taken as an injection every two months – could be more effective at preventing HIV transmissions than Truvada. Truvada was the first medication approved by the ...

Wirth is the CEO of Amida Care. Crowley is the director of the O’Neill Institute’s Center for HIV and Infectious Disease Policy at Georgetown Law. In June, a clinical trial showed that a twice-yearly ...