{"id":964309,"date":"2024-07-04T15:35:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T15:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=964309"},"modified":"2024-07-04T15:35:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T15:35:45","slug":"biannual-injection-protects-young-women-from-hiv-in-sa-uganda-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/biannual-injection-protects-young-women-from-hiv-in-sa-uganda-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Biannual injection protects young women from HIV in SA, Uganda: Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large clinical trial in South Africa and Uganda has shown that a twice-yearly injection of a new drug <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/AP4VNz3C4ok?si=575Pif_sJsYa1a1S\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">provides young women with total protection against HIV infection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The trial tested whether the six-monthly injection of Lenacapavir would provide better protection against HIV infection than two other pills, which need to be taken daily.<\/p>\n<p>All three medications are pre-exposure prophylaxis drugs.<\/p>\n<p>University of Cape Town Professor of Medicine Linda-Gail Bekker was the Principal Investigator for the South African part of the study.<\/p>\n<p>She says the breakthrough gives great hope that a proven, highly effective prevention tool to protect people from HIV, has now been developed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New drug trial shows twice-yearly injection protects young women from HIV in South Africa and Uganda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":964310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[631,632,633,634,635],"class_list":["post-964309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-africa","tag-dr-linda-bekker","tag-hiv-prophylaxis","tag-lenacapavar","tag-prep","tag-uganda-south-africa-clinical-trials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}