In April next year, South Africa plans to start rolling out an anti-HIV jab, taken only twice a year, that could end Aids in the country within 14 to 18 years if enough people take it.
The once-every-six-months shot, called lenacapavir LEN, works 100 of the time to stop young women from getting HIV through sex.
But for our LEN roll-out to be successful so for it to result in ending Aids as a public health threat in South Africa the government would need to buy and distribute millions of doses of the jab over the next two decades.
But is our public health system equipped to keep track of hundreds of thousands of people, let alone millions, who are on the shot and for how long they stay on it?
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In April next year, South Africa plans to start rolling out an anti-HIV jab, taken only twice a year, that could end Aids in the country within 14 to 18 years if enough people take it.
The once-every-six-months shot, called lenacapavir LEN, works 100 of the time to stop young women from getting HIV through sex. Of the about 400 people in South Africa who still get infected with HIV each day 122 of them are teen girls and young women.
