South Africa will soon start producing an affordable and generic version of the groundbreaking HIV-prevention drug, prophylaxis, long-acting cabotegravir (CAB-LA), for the first time, reported the United Kingdom-based newspaper, The Guardian, on Thursday (May 18).

In a first, South Africa to produce injectable-HIV prevention drug

Zimbabwe has approved the use of long-acting injectable cabotegravir (CAB-LA) as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention, recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO) earlier this year making it the first African nation and third in the world to do so.

Zimbabwe becomes first country in Africa to approve HIV prevention drug

In South Africa the pandemic has disrupted the supply of antiretroviral drugs, endangering the lives of many people who take the medications that suppress the HIV virus.

South Africa disrupts HIV drug supply: 7.7 million HIV patients in the country

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday that it was discontinuing its trials of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine and combination HIV drug lopinavir/ritonavir in hospitalised patients with COVID-19 after they failed to reduce mortality.

WHO halts hydroxychloroquine, HIV drugs in COVID trials after failure to reduce death

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In a first, South Africa to produce injectable-HIV prevention drug

Zimbabwe becomes first country in Africa to approve HIV prevention drug

South Africa disrupts HIV drug supply: 7.7 million HIV patients in the country

WHO halts hydroxychloroquine, HIV drugs in COVID trials after failure to reduce death

'Most hated man' gets seven years in jail for defrauding investors