A South African study has shown that the PrEP drug lenacapavir can prevent 100 percent of HIV infections after two doses a year.
A new clinic study in South Africa and Uganda has found that the drug lenacapavir provides a complete protection against HIV/AIDS infections.The breakthrough presents hope for women in Africa looking for pre-infection protection, especially in combatting stigma.
This week, South African researchers part of a study between the country and Uganda have found that the new preventative drug lenacapavir, a pre-exposure medicine or , can prevent 100 percent of HIV infections in young women after just two injections of the drug a year. It was used to test how effective in preventing infection lenacapavir was compared with daily PrEP drugs like Truvada F/TDF and Descovy F/TAF, which are both in pill form. It was a blind trial, with participants randomly selected for each of the drugs.describes, young African women are bearing the burden of most new infections of HIV/AIDS. While only 1.5 percent of the women who took Truvada contracted HIV and 1.
However, with the new injection, just two clinic visits a year means full protection with no daily pill-taking regimens required. If the drug can be advanced enough to provide full protection after only one dose every year, it may be the closest we’ve ever gotten to an HIV vaccine.
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