New HIV prevention injection to be made available to low and middle income countries
an injection given twice a year, showed 100% success in stopping HIV infections in cisgender women. These are women whose gender identity matches the sex they were assigned at birth.
Following the positive results, the independent data monitoring committee, overseeing the study, recommended that Gilead stop the blinded phase of the trial and offer open-label lenacapavir to all participants.Merdad Parsey, a doctor from Gilead Sciences, said:"With zero infections and 100% success, lenacapavir could be a powerful new tool to prevent HIV."
The purpose programme, which includes five studies around the world, aims to find new ways to prevent HIV and involves communities in the process., a South African online publication covering health, Bekker said the trial included 5 000 people from South Africa and Uganda. They tested lenacapavir and two other drugs to see which one worked best.
The study wanted to investigate if lenacapavir was safe and better than Truvada, a pill taken every day to prevent HIV.
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