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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Philippe Duneton and Anne Aslett

We cannot waste this once-in-a-generation HIV breakthrough – it must reach the young women who need it most

In global health, true breakthroughs are rare. When they come, their value is measured not in laboratories, but in the lives they save.

Today, that test centres on lenacapavir – sometimes called Len – a long-acting HIV prevention drug that could transform the global epidemic, particularly for adolescent girls and young women, who remain at its heart.

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