{"id":338579,"date":"2026-03-14T07:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T07:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/338579\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T07:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T07:21:09","slug":"a-more-discreet-and-convenient-option-eight-african-countries-receive-40-hiv-prevention-injection-as-rollout-set-to-expand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/338579\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A More Discreet And Convenient Option\u2019: Eight African Countries Receive $40 HIV-Prevention Injection As Rollout Set To Expand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight African countries have reportedly begun receiving shipments of the HIV-prevention injection lenacapavir, a twice-yearly drug priced at about $40 per person annually, in a move health officials say could reshape efforts to curb infections in the region hardest hit by the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Gilead said last November it had delivered the first supplies of the injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, to Eswatini and Zambia. Shipments have since expanded to South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Lesotho, Uganda and Nigeria, according to health officials and program partners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eight African countries have reportedly begun receiving shipments of the HIV-prevention injection lenacapavir, a twice-yearly drug priced at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[904,163,85,46],"class_list":["post-338579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-current-affairs","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}