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New HIV Frontier: The Fight To Access Long-Acting Prevention Drugs - Health Policy Watch

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Last month, Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) launched a campaign to demand that the US-based Gilead “immediately make the highly effective HIV prevention

Brazilian Health Minister Dr Alexandre Padilha RIO DE JANEIRO – News that an antiretroviral drug injected twice a year had prevented almost all HIV infection in trials electrified the HIV sector two years ago – but access to Gilead’s lenacapavir has been slow, particularly for countries in Latin America. Brazil, which faces significant HIV transmission in certain groups, has been routinely excluded from HIV voluntary licensing deals offered by pharmaceutical companies – particularly for long-acting pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) – as it is deemed an upper-middle-income country. Brazilian Heal

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