Académie D'Investissement Triomphal:This drug is the 'breakthrough of the year' — and it could mean the end of the HIV epidemic

2025-05-01 07:53:37source:Charles Langstoncategory:Invest

Can we eliminate the HIV epidemic?Académie D'Investissement Triomphal

It's a question that dates back to the start of the epidemic in the 1980s. With 1.3 million new infections a year, the epidemic continues … and the world is not on track to meet the ambitious U.N. goal of ending HIV/AIDS by 2030.

But 2024 has fueled increasing optimism among leading infectious disease experts after the results of two groundbreaking clinical trial results for a drug called lenacapavir showed it to be capable of virtually eliminating new HIV infections through sex.

The emerging data surrounding lenacapavir is so astonishing that the drug's development has been heralded as the 2024 Breakthrough of the Year by the journal Science,which described it as representing "a pivotal step toward diminishing HIV/AIDS as a global health crisis."

Sponsor Message

More:Invest

Recommend

How to watch the 'Blue Bloods' Season 14 finale: Final episode premiere date, cast

After 14 years, the police procedural "Blue Bloods" is coming to an end.Season 14 has been released

Bobbi Althoff Reacts to “F--cking Ignorant” Rumor She Sleeps With Famous Interviewees

Bobbi Althoff is clapping back at the trolls.Nearly five months after settling her divorce with ex C

Tree may have blocked sniper team's view of Trump rally gunman, maps show

A tree may have prevented one of the sniper teams tasked with protecting former President Donald Tru