Pharma manufacturer Gilead making available at cost (2 million doses in most needed countries) while generics are developed and can later be distributed. Decent play from a Pharma company.
incredible news. i am saddened for everyone lost during the last 44 years.
As am I, but don’t stop counting yet. I’m sure this administration will guarantee many more are lost.
It’s so nice to have these vaccines to protect us and allow us to live a fuller life…. I wonder what republicans are gonna do about it?… or is Kennedy gonna stop it from hitting shelves?
Just want to be clear to anyone reading that this is not an HIV vaccine, it’s a long-lasting antiviral medication. Similar therapies have been approved since 2012, and an injection that lasts for two months was approved in 2021.
The main benefit of a once-every-six-month injection is for people at high risk with very limited access to healthcare. PrEP is great but this is a fairly minor improvement to existing therapies.
To be fair to those calling it a vaccine, it is a preventative medication administered by injection twice a year. For a layperson, that sounds like a vaccine.
I’ve seen the word vaccine appear at least 5 times in this thread. It’s weird that people are going there.
This would be a whole lot more uplifting without the news about getting rid of the woke preventative medicine panel.
This was apparently on June 18. Here’s NBC’s coverage of it: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-hiv-prevention-drug-prep-lenacapavir-rcna208387
I’m trying to find other outlets that confirm “The makers are also providing affordable access to the drug in the US and beyond, signing royalty-free licensing agreements with six generic manufacturers to produce and supply it.”, which NBC’s article doesn’t say.
Oh that’s cool! If you find the source please do share (or post it again! This is good news).
I did not.
Sadness. We’ll need the vlogbrothers on this then.
Great! Now we preferably need something that we don’t need to use twice a year, and we could actually vaccinate everyone.
Because realistically, most people will not take a vaccine twice a year just in case.
Peter Marks was forced out of the FDA by Trump, in part for refusing to spread disinformation about vaccines. I didn’t think we’d be able to believe anything they say for the next few years.
Yeah but Trump pulling funding means people who need it can’t afford it. I guess if a person has HIV and voted for Trump… they wanted that? Weird.
Cool, can I get this shot when I get my flu shot?
I thought you were only supposed to get the flu shot once a year?
Yeah but it would motivate people like me to get around to it
And it only took doctors and scientists 5 decades. Not bad. 👍
Twice a year injectables are very scary to me because an adverse reaction is something may last more than half a year. You could be in for a bad time.
ETA Before getting angry, read my response below.
Scarier than AIDS?
Speaking as someone with HIV, the worst part is actually the medication. I’ve literally spent at least 6 months at home at various points because the side effects are so bad that I sometimes need a week or two to adjust to any changes. I’ve had to try 6-8 combinations just to find something whose side effects were light enough that I could work. One caused me such bad abdominal distention that I couldn’t eat solid food for about 1.5 years and I formed a hernia that required surgery.
So yes, for me, most of them are genuinely worse than dying.
Now I think you were just saying something rude to me a moment ago.
I wasn’t trying to be rude. It just seemed like you were suggesting the preventative injectable could be worse than AIDS itself, and I was genuinely asking why that would be scarier.
I’m sorry you’ve had such a rough experience with HIV treatment. That sounds genuinely awful. But just to clarify, the medication being discussed here is preventative, not treatment after infection. It likely has a different side effect profile because its purpose is prevention, not management of the disease.
If anything, your experience actually makes the case for a reliable preventative even stronger.
I understand where you’re coming from based on what you’ve been through, but I think we’re talking about two very different situations.
Sorry for the late reply, I’ve been moving. I appreciate your response, it was a kind message.
