Posted on 02/24/2015 7:54:28 PM PST by Olog-hai
For the first time, a study shows that a drug used to treat HIV infection also can help prevent it when taken before and after risky sex by gay men.
The results offer hope of a more appealing way to help prevent the disease beyond taking daily pills and using condoms, although those methods are still considered best.
The study, done in France and Canada, is the first to test “on demand” use of Truvada, a pill combining two AIDS drugs, by people planning to have risky sex. The uninfected men who took it were 86 percent less likely to get HIV compared to men given dummy pills. […]
Daily Truvada pills are used now to prevent HIV infection in people at high risk for it, and studies show the drug helps even when some doses are skipped. Health officials have been leery of billing it as a “chemical condom” out of fear that people will not use the best prevention methods, but many won’t use condoms all the time or take daily pills. …
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Another expensive drug covered under Obamacare.
Or you could always fake it like Magic Johnson did.
HIV/AIDS is still - vast majority - a homosexual male disease.
Wonder why all the secularists/evolutionists don’t just come out and say this is just nature culling out the obviously defective. Homosexuality is a dead end.
No pill on earth makes fudge packing clean. It’s like swimming in a septic tank.
Eighty-six percent protection? That’s about the margin of “safety” in playing Russian Roulette.
Interesting number, too.
With blood too, which is why it’s a risky behavior, the bleeding that can be caused by this behavior makes it a very risky vector for HIV, Hepatitis, Shigella parasites, and worse.
Urinary track infections with antibiotic resistant e-coli should be enough to convince anyone not to stick their member into fecal stuff. Sodomy is for stupid people, which is why Democrats promote it.
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