Gilead’s twice-yearly antiviral protected women from HIV infection
Gilead said Thursday that twice-a-year injections of a new antiviral drug, called lenacapavir, completely protected cisgender women from contracting HIV in a large Phase 3 trial.
In the study, none of the 2,134 women who received lenacapavir contracted HIV. By comparison, 16 of the 1,068 women who received the long-running daily pill Truvada contracted HIV. And 39 out of 2,136 women who received a newer daily pill called Descovy developed HIV.
It’s not clear from this article and I had to read this web page to determine these are women have been infected with the virus and this medication suppresses HIV to the point the virus is not a threat to their health.
HIV found its way to the U.S. in the late 1970s or early 1980s. At the time I expect it would be just five or ten years, at most, before there was a cure or a vaccine. There have been pretty good treatments for,what, 10 years now? But those treatments could not claim anything close to perfection. After about 45 years this drug appears have a good chance of making that claim.
The initial response was run by Fauci. He is retired now so you may be correct.
Indeed. Anyone with an interest in HIV or AIDS for any reason owes it to themselves to read “The Real Anthony Fauci” by RFK Jr. It’s a VERY heavily-sourced book, well over one thousand specific citations given.
There is a very good reason there was no treatment. They went with profits before people is the one-line summary. They still are.
A far better way is to avoid the need for their bandaid by not doing the dangerous activities which carry the risk in the first place. Common-sense morality, available to all for 2,000 yrs free of charge.
Thank you.
You mean things like like receiving blood transfusions, being born to a drug addicted and infected mother, or having unprotected sex with a spouse you didn’t know was cheating on you.
All of the above and more have happened to innocent people who did not do any of the dangerous activities you refer to. I remember the horrible story of a boy with hemophilia who contracted the disease through a blood transfusion in the early 1980s. Suddenly, he found himself being ostracized and being accused of all sorts of things by those who thought he had not practiced “common-sense morality”.