News Forum - UK set to defeat HIV virus

[Thaiger]

The United Kingdom hopes to become the first nation in the world to defeat the HIV virus, with plans for new medicines to be available across the country. Doctors believe they can prevent all new cases of HIV by 2030. People with HIV will have access to injectable forms of cabotegravir and rilpivirine, and those with drug-resistant infections will be able to receive fostemsavir after it was approved last week. HIV treatment aims to keep the number of virus particles in the blood, known as the viral load, so low that it cannot be detected or transmitted. Cabotegravir only needs to […]

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