Globally, an estimated 4,000 adolescent girls and young women become infected with HIV each week, with sub-Saharan Africa accounting for more than 60% of these new infections, according to the World ...

A new injectable drug known as lenacapavir could change how millions of people across the world and Africa in particular access HIV protective drugs, which historically have hard to come by.Presented ...

PEPFAR was launched in 2003 to stop the spread of HIV in Africa. Now, although some funding remains for the program, many of ...

Thousands of adults age 50-plus are diagnosed with HIV every year, but an expanding menu of medications can help prevent ...

Researchers found that lenacapavir reduced almost 100% reduction new HIV infections among participants who received it as a ...

Lenacapavir, new twice-yearly HIV injection, raises hope for pill-weary patients. Discordant couples, sex workers hail ‘game ...

The World Health Organization has suggested global release of lenacapavir, a twice-yearly injectable medication, as a powerful HIV infection-fighting medication. The historic suggestion was made ...

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A landmark breakthrough in HIV prevention — a scientific feat decades in the making — received final approval from the Food ...

The FDA approval of lenacapavir as a form of preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a major step for HIV prevention, but its ...