{"id":132830,"date":"2021-12-21T19:22:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T03:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/fda-just-approved-the-worlds-first-injectable-medication-to-prevent-hiv"},"modified":"2021-12-21T19:22:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T03:22:41","slug":"fda-just-approved-the-worlds-first-injectable-medication-to-prevent-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/fda-just-approved-the-worlds-first-injectable-medication-to-prevent-hiv","title":{"rendered":"FDA Just Approved The World\u2019s First Injectable Medication to Prevent HIV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fda-just-approved-the-worlds-first-injectable-medication-to-prevent-hiv2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s first injectable medication to reduce the risk of acquiring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/hiv\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"HIV\">HIV<\/a> has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/news-events\/press-announcements\/fda-approves-first-injectable-treatment-hiv-pre-exposure-prevention\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the agency announced<\/a> Monday (December 20).<\/p>\n<p>The injectable drug \u2013 called Apretude or its generic name, \u201ccabotegravir extended-release injectable suspension\u201d \u2013 provides an alternative to daily pills for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/34699-hiv-aids-symptoms-treament-prevention.html\">HIV<\/a> prevention, such as Truvada and Descovy. These pills are up to 99 percent effective at preventing the sexual transmission of HIV, but must be taken every day to be that effective, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/hiv\/clinicians\/prevention\/prep.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a> (CDC).<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, to start Apretude, people initially receive two shots, spaced one month apart, and then they receive an injection every two months thereafter, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/news-events\/press-announcements\/fda-approves-first-injectable-treatment-hiv-pre-exposure-prevention\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FDA statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s first injectable medication to reduce the risk of acquiring HIV has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the agency announced Monday (December 20). The injectable drug \u2013 called Apretude or its generic name, \u201ccabotegravir extended-release injectable suspension\u201d \u2013 provides an alternative to daily pills for HIV prevention, such as Truvada [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}