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HIV prevention injection

In a double blind trial with lenacapavir and other drugs with 5000 women from Uganda and South Africa, none of the 2134 women who received lenacapavir contracted HIV, whereas the other tested drugs did not have a 100 percent efficiency. The women got every six months an injection with lenacapavir.

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