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The Ministry of Health and Social Services has registered lenacapavir, a long-acting HIV prevention medication administered twice a year, as part of efforts to strengthen the country’s HIV prevention response.<\/em><\/p>\n This was announced in a statement by the ministry on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n The ministry says the registration was fast-tracked, placing Namibia among the first African countries to approve the next-generation pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) option. South Africa and Zambia have already…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The Ministry of Health and Social Services has registered lenacapavir, a long-acting HIV prevention medication administered twice a year, as part of efforts to strengthen the country’s HIV prevention response. This was announced in a statement by the ministry on Thursday afternoon. The ministry says the registration was fast-tracked, placing Namibia among the first African […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":222433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,6949,6545,4706,724,257,6356,11678,254,53538],"class_list":["post-222432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-drug","tag-hiv","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-prevention","tag-registers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-twiceayear"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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