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People with HIV who switched from daily medication to an investigational once-weekly pill containing islatravir and lenacapavir remained virally suppressed on the new combination, according to the results of two phase 3 trials.The findings, presented recently at the International AIDS Conference in Rio de Janeiro and published in The New England Journal of Medicine, were “highly
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