BHEKISISA OP-ED: What is the use of anti-HIV injections when those who need it most can’t get it?

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A new HIV prevention medicine could work even better than daily pills, but if nothing changes it costs more than R300,000 to treat one person for a year.

work the same way as their brand-name counterparts because they have the same active ingredient .

This is worrying, because it echoes a pattern from 20 years ago with antiretrovirals for treatment – drug companies would not issue licences, claiming the drugs were too difficult to make, that generics were unreliable, or they were not willing to lower their prices. Viiv Healthcare’s attitude is already causing concern, since it is restricting supply for implementation research projects, suggesting it cannot make enough of its product.

If you take PrEP to protect yourself against HIV infection, then that medicine, whether it’s a pill or injection, has to be taken, so that there’s enough of the drug in your body to shield the immune system from infection. , which contains two types of ARVs, tenofovir and emtricitabine, and is widely available in South Africa, in state clinics and in the private sector.With close to 7.6 million South Africans estimated by theto be HIV positive and about 200,000 new HIV infections per year, the country desperately needs PrEP to help slow down new infections.

 

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