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India’s HIV infections are rising quietly. Why twice-yearly lenacapavir matters

Published by India Today By Sumi Sukanya Dutta · 25 August 2026 at 15:21
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India’s HIV infections are rising quietly. Why twice-yearly lenacapavir matters
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The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation CDSCO has permitted two Indian drugmakers to make generic lenacapavir without local clinical trials amid a steady and worrying rise of new HIV infections in many states in the country

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