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What Are Your Odds of Getting HIV?

The transmission risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) varies by the type of exposure. But proven tools can help make getting HIV preventable. As scientists continue to investigate and evaluate ...
Long Island Press

The breakthrough drug transforming HIV prevention: FDA-approved lenacapavir protects with twice-yearly injections

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved a groundbreaking new option for preventing HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The injectable drug lenacapavir was approved in June and is ...
Medscape

Six-Monthly HIV Prevention Injection Cleared by MHRA

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has approved a new long-lasting prophylactic treatment for HIV-1 that is administered once every 6 months. Lenacapavir (Yeytuo, Gilead ...
Monitor

Mad dash for new HIV drug: What it takes to access lenacapavir

Dr Jane Ruth Aceng says Uganda is committed to ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 through a combination prevention ...
SAPeople on MSN

HIV-prevention in SA: Lenacapavir raises hope and hard questions

Lenacapavir arrives in South Africa with promise and risk, but will this HIV prevention injection deliver real change? The ...
The Baltimore Sun

Howard is among few places in Maryland offering a new shot to prevent HIV

The Howard County Health Department is now among just a handful of Maryland health agencies that offer a twice-yearly HIV injection. Howard County will dispense the biannual prevention injection ...