How often, on average, do you forget to take your daily meds?

For me, it’s about twice a week. And that’s for something as low stakes as a vitamin D supplement; it’s not the end of the world if I’m a little deficient. But when it comes to HIV prevention, missing a dose of your prescribed daily prevention pills could mean the difference between protection and new infection.

A new drug called lenacapavir might entirely change the game, though.

Right now, our most widely used tool to stave off HIV — which killed an estimated 630,000 people last year — is through prevention pills, called pre-exposure prophylaxis. PrEP works extremely well and has prevented millions of HIV infections in the 13 years it’s been around. But the catch is that it needs to be taken every single day. In much of the

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