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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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An aspirin will stop HIV in its tracks.
Just hold it between your knees.
It ain’t rocket science.
Uninfected men who have sex together won't spontaneously get HIV.
However if those are INFECTED men and they take it, you'll have to do the experiment again...
Eventually, we are going to have to tax this unhealthy lifestyle choice just like smoking...
Darwin is not amused.
They say the first symptom of AIDS is a pounding sensation in the butt.
Sure it will
Aint gona happen, queers have special status don’cha know.
Darwin’s dead. God is who is not amused.
Don’t commit buggery.
Looks like they’re looking for an increase in aids cases.
To all- please ping me to Canadian topics.
Canada Ping!
Reminds me of Russian roulette, with slower results.
There’s an idea, except the Gaystapo will mewl against it.
This is not really new.. exactly.
For Hospital worker that has to deal with AIDS possible blood contact
CDC
“These guidelines outline considerations in determining whether health care workers should receive PEP and in choosing the type of PEP regimen. For most HIV exposures that warrant PEP, a basic 4-week, two-drug (there are several options) regimen is recommended, starting as soon as possible after exposure. For HIV exposures that pose an increased risk of transmission (based on the infection status of the source and the type of exposure), a three-drug regimen may be recommended. Special circumstances, such as a delayed exposure report, unknown source person, pregnancy in the exposed person, resistance of the source virus to antiretroviral agents, and toxicity of PEP regimens, are also discussed in the guidelines. Occupational exposures should be considered urgent medical concerns, and PEP should be started within 72 hours—the sooner the better; every hour counts.”
No no! 0bama says it is honorable and our strength.
Perhaps I sshould have been more specific.
Evolution is not amused.
Just when it had managed to evolve a culling mechanism, some drug manufacturers neutralized it.
;-(
That’s not how it works.
Avoiding strangers before sex can pretty well prevent it!
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