Unitaid will fund “two large-scale operational projects” distributing long-acting injectable HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to at-risk populations in Brazil and South Africa, the WHO-hosted agency announced last week.
ViiV Healthcare—recently under fire for its reluctance to pursue voluntary licensing for the cabotegravir-based shots—will donate supplies. But the donation didn’t exempt the GSK subsidiary from pricing scrutiny from Unitaid’s executive director, who publicly urged…