{"id":241938,"date":"2026-07-31T08:10:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T13:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/a-new-kind-of-hiv-pill-just-passed-its-first-test-in-humans"},"modified":"2026-07-31T08:10:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T13:10:42","slug":"a-new-kind-of-hiv-pill-just-passed-its-first-test-in-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/a-new-kind-of-hiv-pill-just-passed-its-first-test-in-humans","title":{"rendered":"A New Kind of HIV Pill Just Passed Its First Test in Humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-kind-of-hiv-pill-just-passed-its-first-test-in-humans2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have just announced the results from the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/clinical-trials\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">clinical trial<\/a> in people with HIV-1 of a new antiretroviral drug, which suggests it could be a very useful new tool in treating the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/virus\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">virus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The drug is currently known as \u2018VH-499\u2019 (that\u2019s short for VH4011499), and it works by inhibiting the virus\u2019s capsid protein, without which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/hiv\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">HIV<\/a> cannot proliferate to harmful or transmissible levels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdvancements in care and prevention have transformed HIV-1 into a manageable chronic condition and reduced transmission rates,\u201d write clinical pharmacologist Rulan Griesel and team in a <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciag452\">paper announcing the clinical trial results<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have just announced the results from the first clinical trial in people with HIV-1 of a new antiretroviral drug, which suggests it could be a very useful new tool in treating the virus. The drug is currently known as \u2018VH-499\u2019 (that\u2019s short for VH4011499), and it works by inhibiting the virus\u2019s capsid protein, without [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241938","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}