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Launch of Lenacapavir in South Africa for HIV prevention South Africa Helped Create Lenacapavir, Gilead Should Not Decide Who Gets It – African Alliance | SA News

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South Africa is preparing to rollout lenacapavir, the innovative, game changing twice-yearly injectable HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drug that was also researched in the Global South.

On June 5, the President and the Health Minister will officially launch the roll-out of lenacapavir in South Africa in Secunda, billed as a ‘historic event’. But as our country – one with the world’s largest HIV epidemic –  prepares to launch the drug that could end the epidemic, we must ask why we are being asked to celebrate when South Africa’s rollout plan is unambitious, low-scale, and in danger of being more about the pomp than the public health impact. The targets are too low;…

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  1. Fun South African Fact: While the country only covers 1% of the Earth’s land surface, South Africa boasts 10% of the world’s bird, fish and plant species as well as 6% of its mammal and reptile species!