BHEKISISA: Anti-HIV jab could be in SA clinics by August 2023 — if the price is right

, report that the price that ViiV Healthcare is considering ranges between R4,080 and R4,590 per patient per year — far above what South Africa can afford.

A CAB-LA trial participant, Boleka Ntshintshi. She says the two-monthly injection has changed her life. The only African country whose medicines regulator has approved CAB-LA as a form of HIV prevention so far, ishe CEO of the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority, Sahpra, toldon Wednesday the authority “will make a regulatory decision regarding CAB-LA within the next few days, pending outstanding information required from the applicant”.

Jamaloodien explains: “Sahpra looks at safety, efficacy and quality data of a product to establish if it’s safe to use and if it works the way a manufacturer says it does. NEMLC, on the other hand, compares the product to the current standard of care [in this case the daily HIV prevention pill] to determine if buying the product [in this case CAB-LA] makes economic sense.

Jamaloodien says if Sahpra approves CAB-LA soon, and NEMLC recommends buying the jab, the health department will go out on tender — a process that will take about six months. That could mean that South Africa could potentially see the mass rollout of the jab within nine months after Sahpra registration.

Good news price is always right... Its corrupt politicians that make it worse

Shove it were it fits best

I thot it was already approved by SAHPRA1 in December

HIV among children on a steepening upward trajectory as pedophilia is out of control in South Africa

Does Pfizer have any skin in this game?

Nothing is guaranteed .. you’ll still hev to keep it zipped up for much longer 😂😂

We hit it raw after the jab? I'm in ✋

At last! Hope it works. HIV research really lagged behind.

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