FROM DATUK SAMSON DAVID MAMAN, Secretary-General Majlis Datuk Dato Malaysia
A drug initially used as treatment for HIV could be repurposed into a highly-effective prevention tool against the virus. However, affordability is going to be a major issue in its usage. — AFP
The antiretroviral drug called lenacapavir is approved for use in the United States, Canada, Europe and elsewhere, but only as a treatment for HIV. "It gives participants a choice and it just eliminates the whole stigma around taking pills” to prevent HIV. In a report on the state of the global epidemic released on July 22 , UNAIDS said that fewer people were infected with HIV in 2023 than at any point since the late 1980s.
Back then, South African President Nelson Mandela suspended patents to allow wider access to the drugs.She said her organisation urged Gilead to share lenacapavir's patent with the United Nations-backed Medicines Patent Pool, which negotiates broad contracts allowing generic drugmakers to make cheap versions of drugs for poorer countries worldwide.
Another HIV prevention shot, cabotegravir, which is given every two months, is approved in some countries, including in Africa.
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