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JULY 24, 2024

Twice-Yearly Lenacapavir 100% Effective in Preventing HIV Among Cisgender Women


Originally published by our sister publication Infectious Disease Special Edition

By Marie Rosenthal, MS

No cisgender woman who received injections of lenacapavir (LEN, Gilead) twice a year as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) became infected with HIV, according to an interim analysis of the PURPOSE 1 trial, reported at AIDS 2024, in Munich.

“UNAIDS reports that just over 3,000 young women of a similar age to those in PURPOSE 1 became newly infected with HIV every week in sub-Saharan Africa in