Med Journal’s Breakthrough Of 2024: Anti-HIV Shot

Science.org reports:

Despite decades of progress, HIV still infects more than 1 million people a year, and a vaccine remains stubbornly out of reach. But this year the world got a glimpse of what might be the next best thing: an injectable drug that protects people for 6 months with each shot.

A large efficacy trial in African adolescent girls and young women reported in June that these shots reduced HIV infections to zero—an astonishing 100% efficacy.

Any doubts about the finding disappeared 3 months later when a similar trial, conducted across four continents, reported 99.9% efficacy in gender diverse people who have sex with men.

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Lenacapavir, a new drug being tested to prevent HIV, successfully prevented infection in 100% of patients tested in clinical

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