A team of pharmaceutical researchers at biopharma company Gilead Sciences has announced that a reformulation of its HIV prevention drug lenacapavir allows it to persist in the body for up to a year. In their paper published in The Lancet journal,

Gilead (NASDAQ:GILD) on Tuesday announced encouraging initial data from an ongoing Phase 1 trial for lenacapavir, an intramuscular injection given as two once-yearly formulations for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in HIV prevention.

Gilead released data showing that an HIV drug, called lenacapavir, could provide virtually complete protection against infection with just a