By: Mark Jacobson

Mark Jacobson — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 21:53:25 +0000

I wonder if part of the reason Wikipedia is only “maybe” up to date with the current medical understanding of a topic is simply a lack of incorporation of information that actually is up to date in one article that covers a topic but not in another? Here is an example. Lenacapavir is a game-changing new antiretroviral drug, the first in a new drug class to be approved by the FDA, which occurred in 2022. There is an up to date article on lenacapavir in Wikimedia. However. mention of lenacapavir and the remarkable results of recent randomized trials with this drug is absent from the general article on Management of HIV/AIDS , which does discuss all previous classes of antiretroviral drugs. The general article also has a section about the most appropriate source for guidance in how to use antiretroviral therapy, but these are 2015 versions that have been updated multiple times since then. The 2024 version of the US Dept of Health HS Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in HIV-1-Infected Adults and Adolescents, which is the consensus guideline most HIV specialists follow, discusses lenacapavir in some detail.

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