Multiple African Countries Authorize Vaginal Ring For HIV Prevention In Adults

Healio (12/4, Feller) reports, “The dapivirine vaginal ring, a long-acting form of HIV prevention, has been licensed for use in 11 sub-Saharan African nations,” according to the Population Council. The flexible silicon ring “has been approved or authorized for adults in Botswana, Eswatini, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe, and is available...through implementation and pilot studies in six of these countries...according to” the organization.