Recent years have seen rapid advances in the development of long-acting effective methods to prevent and treat HIV, notably long-acting injectable antiretroviral therapy (LAI ART) and long-acting injectable preexposure prophylaxis (LAI PrEP).
U.S. health regulators on Wednesday authorized the first pill against COVID-19, a Pfizer drug that Americans will be able to take at home to head off the worst effects of the virus.