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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Julia Kollewe

People with HIV offered hope of self-injected drug at home

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GSK-controlled joint venture ViiV Healthcare makes 17 prescription HIV medicines including cabotegravir. Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters

One of the world’s largest commercial developers of HIV drugs is working on a treatment that can be injected by patients at home every two to three months by the end of the decade, saving them frequent visits to the clinic.

ViiV Healthcare, a GlaxoSmithKline-controlled joint venture, makes 17 prescription HIV medicines, including the long-acting treatment cabotegravir, which was first approved in the US in January 2021.

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