June 18 (UPI) -- The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new drug that could prevent HIV infections with just two shots every year and possibly eradicate the disease.
The drug's scientific name is lenacapavir and it will be marketed as Yeztugo, which requires one injection every six months to maintain its effectiveness in preventing HIV infections.
Other drugs exist that also prevent HIV, but they require daily dosages in pill form and have not significantly affected the disease on a global level.
"We're on the precipice of now being able to deliver the greatest prevention option we've had in 44 years of this epidemic," AVAC executive director Mitchell Warren told the New York Times. AVAC is an anti-HIV organization.
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