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Monthly HIV injection could free patients from gruelling drug regimen

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Coloured transmission electron micrograph of budding HIV particles

The HIV virus can be kept in check by drugs injected once a month.Credit: NIBSC/Science Photo Library

Long-acting medicines have proved as effective as daily pills in preventing HIV from replicating, according to results from twin trials that enrolled more than 1,000 people in 16 countries.

The drugs tested, cabotegravir and rilpivirine, are given once a month as an injection. Read More

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