A new injection to prevent HIV/Aids may be available to women within the next 2 years.
Researchers at the University of the Witwatersrand says the medical break-through in the prevention of the virus, involves medication that’s injected every 8 weeks and is almost 90% more effective in preventing infection among women than existing oral drugs taken daily.
The findings were made in a study conducted over a period of years among more than 3 000 women in Southern Africa.
Head of research at the Wits Institute for Reproductive Health and HIV, Sinead Delany-Moretlwe says the new drug is called cabotegravir.
