The CDC estimates 2.2 million Americans could benefit from HIV prevention drugs, but just over a quarter of that group have ...
Australia's taken another step in HIV prevention, with the TGA approving long-acting drug lenacapavir—but access is vital, ...
Though an antiretroviral medication called PrEP provides near-perfect protection against HIV, patients must often surmount ...
Nationwide, an estimated 1.2 million people are eligible to receive medication that can prevent the spread of life-threatening HIV infection. But only roughly a third of those eligible are currently ...
About 36,000 Americans develop HIV each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And while there is a new FDA-approved medication (Apretude, approved in 2021) to treat those ...
It’s been over a decade since the Food and Drug Administration first approved a medication to prevent HIV. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates just 30% of the 1.2 million ...
The Food and Drug Administration approved the use of PrEP, short for pre-exposure prophylaxis, as a strategy to prevent people from contracting HIV in 2012. Some were eager to take advantage of the ...
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UK approves Gilead’s twice-yearly HIV PrEP drug

Gilead Sciences’ pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) formula of lenacapavir has been approved in the UK as a preventative option for HIV, offering patients a twice-yearly injection to reduce the risk of ...
The Food and Drug Administration approved the use of PrEP, short for pre-exposure prophylaxis, as a strategy to prevent people from contracting HIV in 2012. Some were eager to take advantage of the ...