Western Cape launches twice-yearly HIV prevention injection in high-burden communities

An estimated 540,000 people living with HIV in Western Cape, with 111,000 having no access to care in two years, disproportionately affecting economically vulnerable young women.

In the Western Cape this week, a twice-yearly injection called Lenacapavir began reaching clinics in communities where HIV has long found fertile ground in inequality. The province is offering young women and adolescent girls an alternative to the daily discipline of oral prevention — a quieter, less visible form of protection that health authorities hope will reach those the old approach never could. It is a medical advance, but also a social one: an acknowledgment that the shape of a tool matters as much as its efficacy, and that prevention must meet people inside the actual conditions of th

Western Cape launches twice-yearly HIV prevention injection in high-burden communities

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