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US approves Gilead's twice-yearly injection to prevent HIV
The US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved Gilead Sciences' twice-yearly injection to prevent HIV -- a move ...
HIV prevention drug lenacapavir approved by FDA as twice-yearly injection
Clinical trials showed 99.9% of participants who received the drug, called Yeztugo​ from company Gilead Sciences, remained ...
FDA approves new twice-yearly HIV shot. What to know
Gilead said the price is comparable to existing HIV prevention drugs and the company will work with insurers to obtain broad coverage of the drug. Advocates say the long-acting medication ...
FDA approves 6-month HIV prevention shot
Pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences announced Wednesday the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its six-month, twice-yearly HIV PrEP injection, which was found in trials to be more ...
Long-acting HIV prevention drug from Gilead wins FDA approval. Will it get to the people who need it?
Jared Baeten is Gilead Sciences Inc.'s senior vice president of clinical development and head of the virology therapeutic ...
Gilead Sciences' Twice-Yearly HIV-Prevention Drug Gets FDA Approval
The drug, known as Yeztugo, is the first and only twice-yearly option available in the U.S. for people who need or want PrEP, Gilead said Wednesday. Just under 100% of patients who received the drug ...
FDA approves the world’s only twice-a-year shot to prevent HIV
The Food and Drug Administration has approved the world’s only twice-a-year shot to prevent HIV. In two groundbreaking ...
Gay Men's Health Crisis showed how everyday people stepped up when institutions failed
The story of the AIDS movement is one of regular people: students, bartenders, stay-at-home mothers, teachers, retired lawyers, immigrants, Catholic nuns, newly out gay men who had just arrived in New ...
Gay Men’s Health Crisis showed how everyday people stepped up when institutions failed during the height of the AIDS epidemic – providing a model for today
Some had lost friends or lovers. Some felt a moral calling. Some were just trying to balance their sexual karma. Many were angry. Most had no medical background or professional credentials – just a ...
gh.bmj4d
Examining the substance use, violence, and HIV and AIDS (SAVA) syndemic among urban refugee youth in Kampala, Uganda: cross-sectional survey findings
Background Interactions between substance use, violence, HIV and AIDS, known as the ‘SAVA’ syndemic, are understudied among refugee youth. We assessed the synergistic effects of frequent alcohol use, ...
UN Women5d
Facts and figures: HIV and AIDS
Additional disaggregations correspond to unpublished estimates for 2016 provided by UNAIDS, obtained from country-specific models of their AIDS epidemics. [2] ibid. [3] ibid. [4] ibid. [5] ibid. [6] ...
Nature9d
The HIV epidemic in China: history, response, and challenge
as well as care of HIV/AIDS, because a large number of patients remain to be identified and continue to spread the virus in the population. Clearly, if the epidemic is not contained in China ...