The drug didn’t cause serious side effects in these patients — it was safe enough to use for up to a year.

The drug didn’t cause serious side effects in these patients, even after a year of daily injections.

The drug doesn’t make you lose fat from your skin or your arms and legs — it only targets the fat deep inside your belly, which is the kind that’s most dangerous.

If HIV patients keep taking the injection for a full year, they lose even more belly fat inside their abdomen—about 18% total.

The drug shrinks the fat around the torso and makes the waist smaller, but doesn’t change the fat on the arms, legs, or just under the skin — meaning it targets only the dangerous internal fat.

Doctors who didn’t know who got the real drug thought patients’ bellies looked better after treatment.