HIV prevention injection, lenacapavir is being hailed as one of the biggest breakthroughs in the fight against HIV in years.
A long-acting HIV prevention injection called lenacapavir is being hailed as one of the biggest breakthroughs in the fight against HIV in years, with researchers and global health organisations hopeful it could dramatically reduce new infections worldwide.
We do a deep dive into everything we know about the injection, answering everything from what it is to what it does.
Lenacapavir is an antiretroviral drug designed to both treat and prevent HIV.
What makes this different to daily HIV prevention pills is that lenacapavir is administered as an injection only twice a year.
