Injections Against HIV Could Be Manufactured Locally and... GroundUp_News: SouthAfrica
In 2020, pharmaceutical company ViiV Healthcare announced that a bimonthly injection of its new drug, cabotegravir, prevents HIV infection. More than two years later, the drug is still unaffordable in countries where HIV is highly prevalent.
Globally, 1.5-million people are infected with HIV and about 650,000 people die of AIDS every year. UNAIDS's target of reducing annual infections to fewer than 500,000 by 2020 was not reached. It is widely accepted among experts that prevention as well as treatment is necessary to end the epidemic. But in the United States, a full year's supply for one person of cabotegravir is sold for more than $22,000 . In the UK a year's supply is $9,275.
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