Author: Zury López

Lenacapavir – a strong weapon to accelerate HIV prevention

Introduction Due to the lack of progress on prevention, the global number of new infections is not declining fast enough. In three regions of the world, the numbers of new HIV infections are rising1. Globally, the 2025 prevention target, that is, 95% of people at risk of HIV infection having access to and using effective […]

Is the HIV-2 pandemic vanishing?

The first AIDS patients were diagnosed in 1981 in California. Most were white men having sex with men. The causative agent could not be isolated until 1983. It was a retrovirus, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1. By then, AIDS had already spread to almost every continent, and the patients were of all ethnicities. AIDS was also […]