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Merck & Co./Gilead Team To Take On ViiV In Long-Term HIV Treatment

 
• By Joseph Haas

The companies hope the combination of islatravir and lenacapavir will result in best-in-class oral and injectable long-term HIV products. A PrEP combo is a longer-term goal.

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Merck & Co. and Gilead are joining forces in long-acting HIV therapy

Gilead Sciences, Inc. and Merck & Co., Inc. unveiled a collaboration on 15 March in which they will combine a pair of late-stage, first-in-class drug candidates with a goal of creating oral and injectable long-acting regimens to both treat HIV and to prevent the virus in at-risk people.

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