Uganda: HIV Injection Is Not a Vaccine, Experts Warn
Kampala — Experts have urged those who already received their first injection of the twice-yearly HIV preventing drug Lenacapavir to consider using combination prevention options, warning that the game changer injection is not a vaccine.
According to results of this study which were released on Wednesday, researchers found only 24 percent of female sex workers and injection drug users, who are also a high at-risk group used PEP in the last three months.
Bagambe says that with the injection now part of the prevention tools in the country, they hope to cut the 37,000 new infections recorded yearly to less than 10,000 by 2030, which will all depend on how compliant people be to maintain the required drug levels in their blood to guarantee protection.
This is a summary of the original articles listed below. Always read the source articles for the full context. GhanaSummary does not create or modify the news — we summarise and link to original publishers.
