Figure 8.

Design of the “Long-acting Pill” technology in its expanded form. The dosage form consists of a water-insoluble elastomeric core and six drug-loaded polymeric arms. Reprinted from Nature Communications Vol 9, Kirtane et al., Development of an oral once-weekly drug delivery system for HIV antiretroviral therapy, Pages 1–13, Copyright 2017, published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, accessed on 2 August 2021) (the “License”). No changes were made to the original figure presented as Figure 1a in the original research paper.