Posted on 09/04/2015 2:51:29 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A study published Tuesday in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases showed the controversial daily pill preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) prevented HIV infection in all 657 patients who took it for two and a half years.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2012 approved a fixed-dose treatment of emtricitabine and tenofovir for people who do not have HIV but may be at risk of contracting it. Those antiviral drugs comprise PrEP, sold under the brand name Truvada, which can keep HIV infection at bay when an individual is exposed from injection drug use or unprotected sex.
Our study is the first to extend the understanding of the use of PrEP in a real-world setting and suggests that the treatment may prevent new HIV infections even in a high-risk setting, lead author Jonathan Volk, MD, MPH, physician and epidemiologist at Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center, said in a news release. Until now, evidence supporting the efficacy of PrEP to prevent HIV infection had come from clinical trials and a demonstration project.
Previous clinical trials of the drug suggested it had a prevention rate of about 86 percent, not 100 percent as the current study does.
Critics say the daily pill encourages risky sex among gay and bisexual men, whom the virus disproportionately affects. Following the drugs approval, #Truvadawhore T-shirts emerged, and some AIDS activists hailed it a party drug. But proponents say the drug has the potential to help prevent future infections of a virus that today plagues nearly 40 million people worldwide especially among individuals who dont have access to condoms.
In the Kaiser Permanente study, HIV infection was prevented despite participants changing sexual behavior, including number of partners and condom use, six months into the study.
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Nothing is 100% effective. I don’t care if it was 100% effective in a trial. When you have millions taking it there will be failures. Some will be the fault of the user, who will sue anyway.
The world doesn’t need something that encourages people to engage in unnatural behavior.
I thought that’s what science was all about.
It will cost a lot, but it won’t work at all - because of their mental illness most homosexuals and drug users have no discipline to even bother to take this drug
Studies have shown that male perverts fornicate like bunnies so it won’t be long before the bugs are resistant to the drug.
Nice to hear about another round of funding for microbiologists for developing another drug to give to healthy people. This allows their lobbyists to kick back more to those underpaid government employees, elected or not.
I’ll never forget seeing the crowd of extremely interested, because it was their lives at stake, ACT-UP members thanking Professor Duesberg for explaining the more rational cause of AIDS, the insult of twenty or thirty cases of hepatitis each year, amyl nitrites and a potpourri of other lifestyle drugs. These guys and their partners were dying when they read the literature and listened carefully to Duesberg. Refusing the cocktails, as did Magic Johnson, they focused on good diet and health, and became healthy again.
Those I know in the pharmaceutical research business don’t like to hear this, and will dismiss such claims, but I’ll trust Nobel Prize winning Kary Mullis, without whose PCR the HIV virus might never have been detected, so seldom is there any trace of live virus is the cadaver of an AIDS patient, Montignier who first isolated the retrovirus stolen by Gallo, and who now agrees that the HIV virus appears to be a “passenger virus” like cold sores, Professor Rubin, now that he has emeritus status, another of the scientists who understand the limitations of retroviruses and are not afraid to talk about them.
Duesberg once commented that had he realized the impact of government control over scientific research in the U.S. he would not have accepted the invitation to leave the Max Plank Institute in Germany where it is industry that funds scientific research and not government. Our NSF would not fund research to test the HIV hypothesis because Gallo and Faucci had proclaimed the scientific truth, similar to the proclamations of T.D. Lysenko who ruined Soviet Genetics by substituting the principles of dialectical materialism, politics, for science. It also reminds of global warming, or climate change since the warming disappeared.
Wzat? Wait a minute, here. Mp>People who don't have access to condoms are going to have a year and a half of this prophylactic medicinal therapy available to them?
If they can be shipped the meds, a few cases of condoms shouldn't be beyond the pale (and likely will be one heckuvalot cheaper).
Tremendous amounts of money can be siphoned out of health care budgets while grandma and grandpa are forced to go looking for willow bark to make tea to get rid of their headache (essentially the same as aspirin).
Which science are you talking about. The “science” that claims that human caused global warming is a done deal or the science that asks questions and strives for the truth.
It was weird wasn’t it.
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Ben, excellent pic in your post # 1. What is the significance of the jiggling fingers? I guess we'll never know if the guy who photo shopped this pic isn't known to anyone.
And coming back to this thread again -and this pic of obama's fingers fiddlin in the wind is....just flat out hilarious.
(sorry Ben be to asking you about something as mundane as this is)
= :^)
He probably saw it, thought it was funny and posted it.
May not know much more than you and I.
But proponents say the drug has the potential to help prevent future infections of a virus that today plagues nearly 40 million people worldwide especially among individuals who dont have access to condoms.
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How do you get irresponsible people to take a pill each day? If they don’t have access to condoms, then how are they going to get access to the pill?
Yeah, and I hate to beat a dead horse on this, but the pic is really funny. One has to wonder what the guy who did this photo was thinking when he did the fingers jiggling around like that....haha.
They were in that gym, and I think there was an inside reason that we don’t know about. It could be a school or team move of some sort.
Maybe they rally the team with that. Who knows.
Oh well, anyway. Gotta hit tha rack. Later
How many billions of taxpayer Dollars went to Big Pharma to discover this new party drug for turdburglars?
You know the people that voted for this degenerate MF will still be around and enfranchised even after he’s gone.
He’s totally radicalized the black population, they are now full soviet.
The faggots and the communists are allied with them.
Maybe they can develop a pill that kills morons.
Well, this should come in handy in Dupont Circle and the Castro District.
That will kill off 2/3 of the U.S. Population, making us more vulnerable to Mexican invasions and Islamic hijras.
If they don't get the virus, they don't pass it on to others who eventually interact with the straight community which saves a lot. The concept may suck but the end results can be a blessing.
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