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HIV-prevention drug CAB-LA
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- The Indian drug company Cipla confirmed that a generic version of the prophylaxis, long-acting cabotegravir (CAB-LA), would be manufactured at its plants in Benoni, near Johannesburg, or Durban.
- An affordable version of a HIV-prevention drug will be made in South Africa for the first time.
- Cabotegravir blocks HIV from entering a person’s cells.
- It reduces to almost zero an individual’s chances of getting infected with the virus through sex.
- The developers of CAB-LA, ViiV Healthcare, and the UN-backed Medicines Patent Pool (MPP), had granted licences to three companies, including Cipla.
- The other two companies, Aurobindo and Viatris, are also Indian corporations.
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