HIV expert Linda-Gail Bekker talks to The Conversation Weekly about promising results from a trial of a new drug for HIV prevention.
A new drug to prevent HIV infection is showing hugely promising results in clinical trials when injected every six months.
Today, women are disproportionately affected by HIV, with young women at the highest risk. In 2022, adolescent girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa represented over 77% of new infections among people aged 15 to 24. Young people do talk about the rattling pills: ‘I walk out of the clinic with a bunch of pill boxes that look like antiretrovirals, and it causes a stir, or my family want to know what’s going on, or my boyfriend wants to know why don’t I trust him.’
Read more: HIV breakthrough: drug trial shows injection twice a year is 100% effective against infection The results were so good that the safety monitoring board for the trial recommended unblinding it and offering everybody on the trial lenacapavir if they wanted it. The company has said $42,000 will not be a reference for the price of the drug if it gets approval for HIV prevention and that it’s committed to develop a strategy that enables “broad, sustainable access globally”.
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