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A twice-yearly injection offers 100% protection against HIV in trial of young women
Twice-yearly shots used to treat AIDS were 100% effective in preventing new infections in women. The drug company says it is waiting for results of testing in men before seeking permission to use it to protect against infection. The results in women were published Wednesday (Jul. 24) in the New England Journal of Medicine. The
HIV: Dual Therapy With Twice-Yearly Injections on the Horizon
One year into treatment with an every-6-month dose of the investigational drug lenacapavir (LEN, Gilead Sciences) in a dual-treatment combination, 88% of treatment-naive people living with HIV had undetectable viral loads. The findings, presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) 2022 Annual Meeting, also showed the drug was well tolerated, with 2…