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31 lip 2024 · For injectable PrEP to be affordable for South Africa, the health department’s national essential medicines list committee, NEMLC, compares the price to what the daily HIV prevention pill...
9 maj 2023 · The South African arm of the Indian drug company Cipla has confirmed that a generic version of the two-monthly HIV prevention injection, CAB-LA — short for long-acting cabotegravir — will be...
21 paź 2024 · For injectable PrEP to be affordable for South Africa, the NEMLC compares the price to what a daily HIV prevention pill, which is available for free in most state clinics, costs the government (R629.40 for a year’s medication for one patient, according to the health department).
17 paź 2023 · PEP is not available in community settings in eastern and southern Africa. A recent legal ruling allows South African pharmacists registered with a government scheme to provide PrEP or PEP without a prescription, but this remains unusual in the region.
4 lip 2024 · A large clinical trial in South Africa and Uganda has shown that a twice-yearly injection of a new pre-exposure prophylaxis drug gives young women total protection from HIV infection. The trial tested whether the six-month injection of lenacapavir would provide better protection against HIV infection than two other drugs, both daily pills.
2 lip 2024 · An injection containing the antiretroviral drug lenacapavir is highly effective at preventing HIV infection for six months per shot. This is according to top-line study findings announced last week by the pharmaceutical company Gilead.
13 mar 2024 · In South Africa, semaglutide presently costs around R6 000 a month, where it is registered only for treating type two diabetes with widespread supply shortages.
