Major HIV Prevention Breakthrough
Truvada slashes HIV Infection Risk in ‘Breakthrough’ Study This past week a study was released that showed giving HIV-negative men Truvada significantly reduced the percentage of them becoming...
View ArticleAIDS Debate Raging Now
The PrEP study using Truvada Mark King in his blog My Fabulous Disease summarizes this important debate raging among AIDS advocates right now – does PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) help or hurt...
View ArticleDrug to Prevent HIV
The first drug shown to prevent HIV infection won the endorsement of a panel of federal advisers Thursday, clearing the way for a landmark approval in the 30-year fight against the virus that causes...
View ArticleTruvada approved for HIV negative people to prevent HIV infection
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Truvada as the first prescription drug—to be used daily and in conjunction with condoms and other safer-sex measures—to prevent HIV among those...
View ArticleCondoms vs PrEP
‘Substantial Minority’ of MSM Would Use Condoms Less When on PrEP A “substantial minority” of men who have sex with men (MSM) anticipated that they would use condoms less if they were taking PrEP, or...
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