Experts say a twice-yearly injection that offers 100% protection against HIV is 'stunning'
Experts say a twice-yearly injection that offers 100% protection against HIV is 'stunning'
A study shows that a twice-yearly shot was 100% effective in preventing new HIV infections in women in Africa.
Twice-yearly shots used to treat AIDS were 100% effective in preventing new infections in women, according to study results published Wednesday.
There were no infections in the young women and girls that got the shots in a study of about 5,000 in South Africa and Uganda, researchers reported. In a group given daily prevention pills, roughly 2% ended up catching HIV from infected sex partners.
“To see this level of protection is stunning,” said Salim Abdool Karim of the injections. He is director of an AIDS research center in Durban, South Africa, who was not part of the research.
The results in women were published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine and discussed at an AIDS conference in Munich. Gilead paid for the study and some of the researchers are company employees. Because of the surprisingly encouraging results, the study was stopped early and all participants were offered the shots, also known as lenacapavir.
Amazing. Hopefully this leads to eradicating HIV for good.
If there's profit to be made treating HIV/AIDS symptoms without curing, the profit motive health industry won't like this. Solve the problem, their profits go away.
Then some other company will do it. Not all world is US and A. Is some areas like Europe the states would be more than happy to order those vaccines to treat their citizens. There’s demand made by public health organizations, there will be someone willing to join the race and eat that cake.
Wonderful!
Republicans will work tirelessly to ban this in the U.S.
twice-yearly
I wonder why they went with that, instead of saying bi-annually
Bi-annually has the problem that it can mean twice a year or every two years.
Does bisexual mean twice per sexual or once every two sexual?
It is clearer. What I learned at work is to write documents in high school language so that everyone can understand them.
For research studies you are unironically required to write consent forms so a middle schooler can understand them because that’s the average level of comprehension in the USA
They could have gone with "every six months" too. I think any of them work, although as other say biannually can mean every two years as well, leading to confusion.
Bi has trended to mean every 2 weeks/months/years/etc.
10 years later: You may be entitled to compensation...