Lenacapavir gains ground as Western Cape uptake passes 3,600
Daily Maverick | 03.09.2026 06:02
At Cape Town’s Philippi Village, beside a rainbow-emblazoned mobile clinic, Olwam Plaatjie says she switched from the two-monthly cabotegravir HIV prevention injection to the six-monthly injectable lenacapavir. Despite small nodules forming at the two jab sites on her abdomen, the 20-year-old is delighted with the new HIV prevention medicine.
