He affirmed that the new drug "could take the epidemic to the history books," according to Mother Jones.Yeztugo, based on the molecule lenacapavir, offers a more effective and less invasive prevention method,

A drug currently used to treat certain HIV infections has also, on Wednesday, received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration to be used to prevent HIV.

Clinical trials have shown that six-monthly injections of lenacapavir are almost 100 percent protective against becoming infected with HIV. But big questions remain over the drug’s affordability.