{"id":216310,"date":"2025-06-20T13:09:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T18:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/breakthrough-fda-approves-injection-to-prevent-hiv"},"modified":"2025-06-20T13:09:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T18:09:34","slug":"breakthrough-fda-approves-injection-to-prevent-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/breakthrough-fda-approves-injection-to-prevent-hiv","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough: FDA Approves Injection to Prevent HIV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breakthrough-fda-approves-injection-to-prevent-hiv2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved Gilead Sciences\u2019 twice-yearly injection to prevent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/hiv\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">HIV<\/a> \u2013 a move the company hailed as a major breakthrough in the fight against the sexually transmitted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/virus\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">virus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Drugs to prevent HIV transmission, known as pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP, have existed for more than a decade. But because they typically require taking a daily pill, they have yet to make a significant dent in global infections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a historic day in the decades-long fight against HIV,\u201d Gilead chairman and chief executive Daniel O\u2019Day said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved Gilead Sciences\u2019 twice-yearly injection to prevent HIV \u2013 a move the company hailed as a major breakthrough in the fight against the sexually transmitted virus. Drugs to prevent HIV transmission, known as pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP, have existed for more than a decade. But because they [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216310","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\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}