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NIH launches HIV prevention trial of long-acting injectable medication

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eMediNexus    05 December 2017

The first large-scale NIH sponsored clinical trial ‘HPTN 084’ of a long-acting injectable medication for HIV prevention in sexually active women has begun. The study in southern and eastern Africa will examine whether a long-acting form of the investigational anti-HIV drug cabotegravir injected once every eight weeks can safely protect women at risk for HIV infection. The only drug regimen currently licensed for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, is the anti-HIV medication Truvada taken daily as an oral tablet. 

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