Global health agencies announced Wednesday that generic versions of a groundbreaking injectable drug to prevent HIV will be made available from 2027 at around $40 a year in more than 100 low and middle-income countries, a move hailed as a potential gamechanger in the fight against the AIDS epidemic.

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  • protist@mander.xyz
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    lenacapavir currently costs around $28,000 a year in the United States.

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      10 years from now, entering a country from the US requires an quarantine period pending test results. The US government whinges about it.

        • scintilla@crust.piefed.social
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          Sheer momentum will keep a country that calls itself the United States to exist into the nearish future. The USSR took years to collapse fully after it started wherever you put that point.