Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Mar 14, 2025

Lenacapavir: this annual shot might protect against HIV infections
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/14/1113225/annual-shot-protect-against-hiv

[Dec 2024] Drug lenacapavir 'breakthrough of year.' Could end HIV epidemic
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenacapavir

Promising results from an early-stage trial suggest that lenacapavir injections might offer long-lasting protection.

Comment: the value of basic science/biomedical research cannot be emphasized enough.

#HIV #AIDS #prophylaxis #lenacapavir
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This annual shot might protect against HIV infections

Promising results from an early-stage trial suggest that lenacapavir injections might offer long-lasting protection.

MIT Technology Review
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 13, 2024

Drug lenacapavir 'breakthrough of year.' Could end HIV epidemic
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2024/12/12/g-s1-37662/breakthrough-hiv-lenacapavir

* 1.3M new HIV infect./yr globally
* U.N. goal: end HIV/AIDS by 2030
* 2 groundbreaking clinical trials
* drug lenacapavir virt. elim. new HIV infections thru sex
* Science j. 2024 Breakthrough of Year
* admin. via 2x yearly injection

Lenacapavir: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenacapavir

Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_HIV/AIDS

#HIV #AIDS #prophylaxis #lenacapavir
#GileadScience #PURPOSE1 #PURPOSE2 studies