{"id":243809,"date":"2025-10-27T16:35:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/243809\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T16:35:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:35:15","slug":"sa-approves-worlds-first-twice-yearly-injectable-hiv-prevention-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/243809\/","title":{"rendered":"SA approves world&#8217;s first twice-yearly injectable HIV prevention drug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) has approved the registration of a new HIV-prevention drug that only needs to be taken twice a year.<\/p>\n<p>The drug, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ewn.co.za\/2025\/10\/22\/new-hiv-prevention-injection-lenacapavir-rolls-out-in-2026-offering-hope-amid-funding-cuts#error=login_required&amp;state=eb394926-77d3-474b-b571-cb4fdd194173\" data-anchor=\"#error=login_required&amp;state=eb394926-77d3-474b-b571-cb4fdd194173\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lenacapavir<\/a>, is the world&#8217;s first injectable Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP). According to the World Health Organization, Lenacapavir is a highly effective alternative option to the daily oral PrEP pills, as the injection only needs to be taken every six months.<\/p>\n<p>SAHPRA spokesperson Yuven Gounden said that safer sex practices are still recommended as a way to prevent HIV, in addition to Lenacapavir.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The registration of Lenacapavir is a game-changer, given the high prevalence rate of HIV in South Africa. This product is the most effective HIV prevention measure thus far,&#8221; said Gounden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) has approved the registration of a new HIV-prevention drug that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[49,48,91399,91400,91403,91402,91401,84,701,377,44,19536,91406,91405,91404],"class_list":["post-243809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ewn","tag-ewn-news","tag-ewn-south-africa","tag-eye-witness-news","tag-eyewitness-news","tag-health","tag-latest-news","tag-medication","tag-news","tag-news-today","tag-prime-media-plus","tag-primedia-plus","tag-primedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}