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VIDEO: FDA Approves the Drug Truvada for Preventing HIV
In what some experts are calling a “game-changing” endorsement by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the commonly used HIV drug Truvada is now approved for preventing HIV. The drug was...
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Truvada for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis: High Risk Candidates Include Pregnant...
To prevent HIV infection of the uninfected partner in discordant couples, the drug Truvada now has become a new option to weigh — along with regular condom use and careful monitoring of the infected...
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Do we really need nucleosides in first line HIV therapy?
Earlier studies have suggested that regimens that do not include NRTIs do not suppress HIV as well as regimens that do. [In the clinical trials session at the XIX International AIDS Conference, we...
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Microbicides and PrEP
Major advances in pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) over the past two years include the demonstrated efficacy of Truvada® taken daily in men-who-have-sex-with-men (iPrEx) and in heterosexual couples...
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Should U.S. women use PrEP? Will they?
Although there have been exciting advances in the field of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) over the past several years, the implications of PrEP for women have been more murky. Some major PrEP...
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HIV Drug Truvada’s Effectiveness Reaffirmed
Could we see the end of HIV/AIDS epidemic in our lifetime? Researchers are getting closer to a possible cure. Truvada, a drug that has long been used as treatment for HIV-positive patients, is also...
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