US approves promising preventive HIV treatment • FRANCE 24 English

it’s a groundbreaking advance in the long fight against HIV led by Gilead Scienc’s game-changing drug lenac this twice yearly injection marketed as yes to go has surpassed expectations in two large clinical trials showing over 99.9% efficacy in preventing HIV transmission nuna Capavir is important to me because it allows me to only have to go to the doctor twice and I feel fully protected from getting HIV no matter if my partner is living with HIV or not so these were two amazing studies with amazing data that basically shows 100% prevention of transmission in majority of the population it’s the second long-acting option for HIV prevention the current prevention shot K Cabota is given every two months to some 21,000 Americans while 500,000 take daily pills at $1 per dose but the new drug though convenient will come at a huge cost of $24,000 per patient per year raising concern about its accessibility not just for patients in the US but also for those abroad proposed budget cuts to Medicaid the domestic health insurance program could restrict access for Americans at risk of HIV gilead Sciences assures that most people in the US will not pay for the drug due to insurance coverage or patient assistance programs but the global demand for HIV prevention also remains urgent with 1.3 million people infected worldwide in 2023 earlier this year the Trump administration moved to stop the supply of life-saving drugs for HIV malaria and tuberculosis in countries supported by USAID around the world as part of a wider freeze on US foreign aid and funding

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved Gilead Sciences lenacapavir, a twice-yearly injvirection, for preventing HIV infection in adults and adolescents at high risk of contracting the deadly virus. Lenacapavir proved nearly 100% effective at preventing HIV in large trials last year, raising new hope of interrupting transmission of the virus that infects 1.3 million people a year.
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  4. Doubt it. If it’s released under this administration I guarantee it isn’t ready. Wait for the horrendous side effects. Dumpster wants a Nobel prize 🏆 for something, anything, while he’s in office. He’ll take credit for what smarter people have done, and will claim it’s better than anything when in reality it doesn’t work. He is a fraud, and anything coming out under his admin is a fraud. I wouldn’t trust that drug.

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