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The FDA Just Approved a Long-Lasting Injection to Prevent HIV
Clinical trials have shown that six-monthly injections of lenacapavir are almost 100 percent protective against becoming infected with HIV. But big questions remain over the drug’s affordability.
Yeztugo is one of the most important scientific breakthroughs of our time and offers a very real opportunity to help end the HIV epidemic,” Daniel O’Day, president and CEO of Gilead, said in a statement on Wednesday. Winnie Byanyima, executive director of of the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), has also flagged in the past that the drug is unaffordable for many people in Africa, where the medicine has the potential to have the biggest impact. One option could be “voluntary licensing,” where other companies are granted permission to produce and sell generic versions of a patented product exclusively to people in certain (often low-income) countries.
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