The U.S. has approved the world’s only twice-a-year shot to prevent HIV, maker Gilead Sciences announced Wednesday. It’s the first step in an anticipated global rollout that could protect millions – although it’s unclear how many in the U.S. and abroad will get access to the powerful new option.
While a vaccine to prevent HIV still is needed, some experts say the shot — a drug called lenacapvir — could be the next best thing. It nearly eliminated new infections in two groundbreaking studies of people at high risk, better than daily preventive pills they can forget to take.
“This really has the possibility of ending HIV transmission,” said Greg Millett, public policy director at amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research.
Just waiting for RFK jr to revoke this approval on the basis that it can’t prevent gay people from doing poppers, so it must not work.
It’s like Goose Bumps cover art
Necronomicon cover but for pestilence matters only
He probably believes poppers are the real cause of AIDS since that was a conspiracy theory for awhile.
D…do…don’t listen… t…to me. I’m… no…not a doctor. You know, Pop…pers… that causes aids.
There’s actually a video out there of him talking to a room full of people about this exact thing. He 100% endorses this theory.
He’ll probably dig up the editors of Continuum magazine to give them leadership positions in the FDA afterwards.