Experts say a twice-yearly injection that offers 100% protection against HIV is 'stunning'
Experts say a twice-yearly injection that offers 100% protection against HIV is 'stunning'
A study shows that a twice-yearly shot was 100% effective in preventing new HIV infections in women in Africa.
Twice-yearly shots used to treat AIDS were 100% effective in preventing new infections in women, according to study results published Wednesday.
There were no infections in the young women and girls that got the shots in a study of about 5,000 in South Africa and Uganda, researchers reported. In a group given daily prevention pills, roughly 2% ended up catching HIV from infected sex partners.
“To see this level of protection is stunning,” said Salim Abdool Karim of the injections. He is director of an AIDS research center in Durban, South Africa, who was not part of the research.
The results in women were published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine and discussed at an AIDS conference in Munich. Gilead paid for the study and some of the researchers are company employees. Because of the surprisingly encouraging results, the study was stopped early and all participants were offered the shots, also known as lenacapavir.
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twice-yearly
I wonder why they went with that, instead of saying bi-annually
Is biannual twice yearly or every two years?
If you look it up, it’s both. IMO all these words are useless. Biweekly, bimonthly, etc.
Instead of biweekly I specify fortnightly. Is there a bimonthly equivalent? Fortweekly?
We should make it a thing. Let's regroup in a fortweek and see how we're getting on.
It's a date.
If you use the word fortnight, it's likely you aren't from North America.
I am American, but I won't use biweekly because it is ambiguous.
I think it's trended to mean every 2. The original commentator wants chaos.
Does bisexual mean twice per sexual or once every two sexual?
Bi-annually has the problem that it can mean twice a year or every two years.
That would be semi-annual
Yes. A bicycle has two wheels, a semicircle is half a circle. Biannual is two years, semiannual is half a year.
English isn't prescriptive, if enough people use it the wrong way then it becomes the right way.
Tell that to the prescriptivists.
It is clearer. What I learned at work is to write documents in high school language so that everyone can understand them.
For research studies you are unironically required to write consent forms so a middle schooler can understand them because that’s the average level of comprehension in the USA
They could have gone with "every six months" too. I think any of them work, although as other say biannually can mean every two years as well, leading to confusion.
Bi has trended to mean every 2 weeks/months/years/etc.