According to ABC News' latest report, almost 38,000 Americans are diagnosed with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) every year. There are already treatments to prevent HIV infection. In 2012, the Food ...

Pharma giant Gilead Sciences has revealed the results of its first, Phase 1 trial into a once-a-year PrEP injection. The ...

A new type of PrEP injection, requiring only three injections a year, could be on the way. The FDA approved injections of cabotegravir in 2021 as a form of PrEP, to minimize the risk of acquiring HIV.

More encouraging news has been announced about the new, twice-yearly PrEP injection currently undergoing trials. Lenacapavir is already in use as a treatment for HIV. However, pharma giant Gilead has ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a highly effective HIV prevention drug that outperforms oral medications in stopping HIV transmission. Developed by Gilead Sciences, the drug ...

A total of 96.9% of the participants had heard of PrEP, of which 90.9% had heard of daily oral PrEP, 76.9% had heard of event-driven PrEP, and only 21.7% had heard of CAB-LA. There were 44.5% of the ...

Wirth is the CEO of Amida Care. Crowley is the director of the O’Neill Institute’s Center for HIV and Infectious Disease Policy at Georgetown Law. In June, a clinical trial showed that a twice-yearly ...

Lenacapavir, a twice-yearly injectable antiretroviral, demonstrated 100% effectiveness for preventing HIV acquisition in a large study of young cisgender women in Africa, Gilead Sciences announced ...

Twice-yearly lenacapavir (Sunlenca) substantially reduced HIV infection when used for preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in cisgender men and transgender or gender-nonbinary persons in the pivotal PURPOSE ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a form of PrEP that requires injections every two months, rather than a daily pill. PrEP, or pre-exposure prophylaxis, uses antiretroviral medications ...

A study suggests that a new medication – taken as an injection every two months – could be more effective at preventing HIV transmissions than Truvada. Truvada was the first medication approved by the ...