{"id":26794,"date":"2026-09-26T00:18:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T00:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=26794"},"modified":"2026-09-29T16:31:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T16:31:03","slug":"how-do-i-get-access-to-6-monthly-hiv-lenacapavir-injections-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/26794","title":{"rendered":"How do I get access to 6-monthly HIV lenacapavir injections in the UK?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi there<\/p>\n

Lenacapavir is a new type of HIV treatment called a capsid inhibitor. It is given by subcutaneous injection every 6 months, but when used as treatment it needs to be used in combination with other active drugs.<\/p>\n

Lenacapavir treatment<\/h2>\n

Lenacapavir was approved as an HIV treatment about four years ago. However, NHS in England only agreed to make it available this year in 2026. NHS Scotland made it available a little earlier.<\/p>\n

Lenacapavir treatment is mainly to be used by people living with HIV who have resistance to other HIV drugs. However, it can also be used when other options are not available due to getting side effects from other meds.<\/p>\n

Access to treatment needs to be recommended by your doctor and then approved by a team of other specialists called an MDT (multidisciplinary team).<\/p>\n

See: NHS England finally approves lenacapavir for ART<\/a><\/p>\n

Lenacapavir PrEP<\/h2>\n

Lenacapavir can also be used by HIV negative people as PrEP to protect against HIV infection.<\/p>\n

Currently, lenacapavir PrEP is not available in the UK unless you are enrolled in a research study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi there, how do I get access to 6-monthly injections in the UK? <\/p>\n

Is there a difference between access as treatment and as PrEP?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,7,10,57,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access-to-treatment","category-adherence","category-all-topics","category-changing-treatment","category-injectable-art","category-resistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}