ViiV Healthcare, the worldwide specialist HIV company majority owned by GSK, with Pfizer and Shionogi as shareholders, and the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) signed a new voluntary licensing pact in July 2022. The agreement pertains to patents relating to cabotegravir long-acting (LA) for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to help enable access in least developed, low-income, lower middle -income and Sub-Saharan African countries.