Despite highly effective HIV prevention drugs on the market, only a fraction of those at risk in the U.S. are taking them — or even know they're an option. It's called pre-exposure prophylaxis, or ...

The drug, Lenacapavir, is the world's first injectable Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP). According to the World Health ...

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a highly effective new HIV-prevention medication, Gilead Sciences reported Wednesday. In clinical trials, the drug nearly eliminated HIV’s spread among ...

How Does Yeztugo Work to Prevent HIV? HIV is a virus that has a coating around it, which is called a capsid. In order for HIV to make copies of itself and spread within your body, it needs to get ...

A recently approved twice-yearly injection to prevent HIV may warrant a higher price, but thousands of dollars more?  CVS Caremark’s chief medical officer calls on Gilead Sciences to lower the $28,000 ...

A newly approved medication to prevent HIV infection that can be injected twice a year is being hailed as a breakthrough in the fight against HIV/AIDS. “It is a wonder drug,” said Rama Rao Amara, an ...

SAHPRA has registered Lenacapavir, a new six-monthly PrEP injection to prevent HIV-1 in adults and adolescents over 35 kg.

There were still 32,000 new cases of HIV in the U.S. in 2022. And about thousands of people still die annually from AIDS. HIV ...

UVA Health researchers say drugs used to treat HIV could help prevent a million new cases of Alzheimer’s each year – and they want clinical trials to find out. UVA’s Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati and his ...

Researchers at UVA Health have found that a class of HIV drugs called nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) may significantly reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. Their ...