South Africa’s medicines regulator, Sahpra, will announce a decision on the approval of the new HIV prevention jab within days. | via Bhekisisa_MG WorldAidsDay
and the price at which ViiV Healthcare would sell the shot to poorer countries was known, a budgetary impact assessment would be doneThe health department’s director of affordable medicine, Khadija Jamaloodien, says the updating process and budget assessment may take between two and three months. The NEMLC will then decide if it’s worth it for South Africa to roll CAB-LA out in the public sector and, if so, recommend a price.
“Just because CAB-LA works better than the daily HIV prevention pill, doesn’t mean that we necessarily need to pay double the price.” Jamaloodien says if Sahpra approves CAB-LA soon, and thee NEMLC recommends buying the jab, the health department will go out on tender — a process that will take about six months. That could mean that South Africa could potentially see the mass rollout of the jab within nine months after Sahpra registration. “We need to learn from the mistakes we made with the rollout of oral PrEP,” Bekker says.
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