Monday, July 16, 2012

First Pill to Prevent HIV

As reported by ABC News and others, the FDA approved Truvada to prevent HIV infection.  Truvada is not a new drug.  What is new is that there is now a primary prevention (healthy people take this) for HIV infection. One controversy is the potential of creating resistance, but the FDA felt that risk was outweighed by the benefit of preventing HIV in serodiscordant partners.

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