New HIV jabs taken two months apart hailed as huge step forward
by Andrew Gregory Health editor from Science | The Guardian on (#5S1NY)
Safe injectable antiretroviral drugs, approved by health bodies, could lift burden of daily oral therapy'
Thousands of people living with HIV in Britain are to be freed from the burden of taking daily pills, after health chiefs gave the green light for a revolutionary treatment by injection every two months.
Draft guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) recommends offering the antiretroviral drugs cabotegravir and rilpivirine in England and Wales after trials proved they work as effectively as daily tablets.
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