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‘Long-acting therapies are no longer the future of HIV treatment – they are the now’

Innovation has transformed the prospects of people living with HIV from a death sentence to a chronic, manageable condition. In this article, Dr. Kimberly Smith, Head of R&D at ViiV Healthcare – GSK’s specialist HIV company – explains just how far her team’s ambitions go.

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