Twice-yearly shots used to treat AIDS were 100% effective in preventing new infections in women, according to study results published Wednesday.
There were no infections in the young women and girls that got the shots in a study of about 5,000 in South Africa and Uganda, researchers reported. In a group given daily prevention pills, roughly 2% ended up catching HIV from infected sex partners.
“To see this level of protection is stunning,” said Salim Abdool Karim of the injections. He is director of an AIDS research center in Durban, South Africa, who was not part of the research.
The results in women were published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine and discussed at an AIDS conference in Munich. Gilead paid for the study and some of the researchers are company employees. Because of the surprisingly encouraging results, the study was stopped early and all participants were offered the shots, also known as lenacapavir.
Republicans will work tirelessly to ban this in the U.S.
Please make this affordable in the U.S.
I have a feeling it won’t be.
But then people might have sex without fear! That’s bound to make baby Jesus cry!
Why would they? There are other STD and this vaccine doesn’t cover those nor prevents pregnancy.
… Oh right, people are idiots and will think this is some sort of panacea…Still, hope my country politicians won’t refuse this one like they keep refusing the one for covid or the ones for the newborns.
AIDS has been the most dangerous STD for decades. It has changed attitudes to sex worldwide. Having a vaccine is going to change them again.
There’s already very effective medicine available in the west to treat and prevent HIV/AIDS, we call it PrEP.
This is more effective than prep and easier, because you only need a shot every 6 months. The testing for this new shit involved using prep for the control group.
The new medicine worked so well they stopped the trial and gave the control group the shot. No one with the shot got sick at all. If they had continued with the control group, a few of them would have gotten AIDS.
You missed my point tho, this vaccine will be a must for everyone and extremely helpful, but it won’t protect people from the rest of the STD nor pregnancy, this means people would still need to wear a condom but I firmly believe most people will just go and say «I already got my shot» and completely disregard the condom.
Most other STDs are curable with antibiotics. And there’s contraceptives. AIDS was always something different, even after it was treatable.
40k per dose
twice-yearly
I wonder why they went with that, instead of saying bi-annually
It is clearer. What I learned at work is to write documents in high school language so that everyone can understand them.
For research studies you are unironically required to write consent forms so a middle schooler can understand them because that’s the average level of comprehension in the USA
Bi-annually has the problem that it can mean twice a year or every two years.
They could have gone with “every six months” too. I think any of them work, although as other say biannually can mean every two years as well, leading to confusion.
Is biannual twice yearly or every two years?
If you look it up, it’s both. IMO all these words are useless. Biweekly, bimonthly, etc.
Instead of biweekly I specify fortnightly. Is there a bimonthly equivalent? Fortweekly?
If you use the word fortnight, it’s likely you aren’t from North America.
I am American, but I won’t use biweekly because it is ambiguous.
We should make it a thing. Let’s regroup in a fortweek and see how we’re getting on.
It’s a date.
