New cabotegravir formulations approved in UK to help prevent HIV-1 infection
The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has today approved two new formulations of the medicine cabotegravir to help prevent sexually transmitted HIV-1 infection in adults and adolescents weighing at least 35kg who are at an increased risk of infection.
Cabotegravir has been authorized as tablets and as a long-acting injection administered every two months.
Marketed under the trade names Vocabria and Apretude (cabotegravir long-acting [LA] by ViiV Healthcare, which is majority-owned by UK pharma major GSK (LSE: GSK), cabotegravir is now off patent.
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