Want the six-monthly HIV jab? Here’s your nine-step clinic cheat sheet

💉 LEN isn’t just one jab: Your first dose involves an HIV test, four tablets over two days and two injections in your tummy or buttocks. ⏰ Put Day 2 in your phone: You have to take your second pair of LEN tablets the day after your injections — and return about a month later for a check-up. 📅 Six months later, it gets easier: Come back on time and you’ll need another HIV test and two jabs — but no more starter tablets.

In today’s newsletter , Ida Jooste introduces the LEN clinic cheat sheet.

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You’ve heard about the new six-monthly HIV jab, lenacapavir (LEN).

You’ve found a clinic that has it.

Now what? First: an HIV test.

Then, if LEN is right for you, two pills and two jabs in the tummy or buttocks.

The next day, two more pills.

About a month later, there’s a check-up.

And six months after your first shots, you’re back for two more, if you feel you still need protection.

Sounds like a lot to remember? We’ve got you.

Find a clinic that stocks LEN here .

LEN FACILITIES BY PROVINCE Download South Africa started giving LEN jabs on 5 June .

And word has travelled fast.