The European Union’s medicines regulator on Friday gave the green light for the first injectable treatment for the HIV that causes AIDS, which could change the lives of millions of people.

The cocktail of two antiretroviral drugs, rilpivirine and cabotegravir, can be given every few months instead of a daily pill to keep HIV infection under control.

“The two medicines are the first ARVs that come in a long-acting injectable formulation,” the European Medicines Agency said in a statement.

“This means that instead of daily pills, patients receive intramuscular injections monthly or every two months,” the Amsterdam-based agency said.

The EMA’s recommendation for marketing authorisation must now be approved by the European Commission before it can be prescribed across the 27-nation bloc.

The injectable version of the drugs could be transformative for people with HIV.

People who forget to take their daily, lifelong doses of HIV medication run the risk of the virus rebounding to make them ill.

They can also develop resistance to the drugs they are using — which would require a more expensive replacement.

The new cocktail of rilpivirine and cabotegravir — branded as Rekambys and Vocabria — work together “to block the ability of the virus to replicate,” the EMA said.

The agency said the injectable treatment is a “significant improvement… by reducing the burden associated with daily pill taking.”

Around 38 million people around the world were living with HIV in 2019, according to World Health Organisation figures, with some 2.3 million people in Europe.

There is no cure for the HIV infection but ARV therapies can control the virus, help prevent transmission and allow patients to live longer. 

(AFP)

One of the primary assignments in a relationship is understanding each other with actions and words. There are some certain things women do when they are shy to tell their men some statements. They will just be demonstrating with actions and if a man does not understand, it can annoy them or make them lose the shyness and rather say what they want him to know.

In this article, I will share with you five distinct body languages a woman shows to convey different messages she can't say by words to her man. She will be shy to say that in words but through some actions below.

I hail ladies for this most commonly used strategy of them when they want to collect money from men. She will use that way to demonstrate she needs you to give her what she has asked for. This code has been used to catch the attention of many men to do what he is not capable of doing easily or conveniently.

So if your woman begins rubbing your head and massaging your back softly after she has asked you to do something, kindly know that she is shy to disturb you again for her request but she is using that method to remind you. 

Humming is used by our women to demonstrate many things. When they disagree with a man or they are shy to tell the man he is lying, they just hum. A woman will just murmur after his man's promise but when he asks her why the murmuring, she will say "nothing, I'm just saying what you said is good".

Additionally, a woman murmurs when her husband asks her to set his bed for him. She will be shy to say that his husband is fond of meeting her but she really likes that and needs you to continue doing it.

This is also used mostly by young girls while visiting their boyfriends. They will loose their hair when they have no money to plait it. Whenever a girl does that, she will let her boyfriend see the hair so that he will ask why she is not plaiting her hair. Then she will say "no money" and by telling him this, she knows he will eventually give her money to do the hair.

So, when a woman looses her hair before visiting you, she wants to ask for money to plait her hair but she is shy to ask it from you.

A woman does this to show that she is not interested in wanting her man is saying but she is shy to shut him up. But when her man taps her, she will ask him to repeat what he has said earlier. 

This act is common among African ladies. They beat their hands with each other when they are shy to say a man is saying "nonsense" and they want you to know that. 

African mothers are fond of using body language to convey different vital messages to their children like winking of eyes, clapping of hands, etc. So, the beating of hand with each other conveys someone is saying rubbish.

Those are some body languages women use when they want to convey messages to their men but are shy to say them in words.