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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I wouldn’t call this medical ‘progress’.
Check out mullah obamas fingers, hahahaha///Excelllent pic Ben.
How much is this buggery balm going to cost us?
Has to be bath-house humor...
Thanks Mr. Apple.
= :^)
Abstaining from rump-ranging is more effective at preventing HIV and it costs nothing.
Buy stock in honey buckets quick!
Why are we wasting all this money to protect queers from themselves?
As soon is this is out, the bath houses will be open again for business.
it will cost plenty - and be demanded to be given out for free. The final insult is that all the additional buggery it encourages will eventually incubate a more virulent disease...
Do the researchers know how many of the study participants were exposed to HIV?
A lot of the insane SF guys who have AIDS in fact DESIRE to have AIDS. That’s sick, but it’s true.
If you’re “JUST gay” you’re not really part of the glamorous drama.
Drama-queen guys go around TRYING to get AIDS —how will this drug (or 100 other ones sold for free) going to stop THAT type of insanity...?
T.E.A. party operatives should demand this drug as part of ObamaCare as they prepare for anal rape by the IRS.
...”especially among individuals who don’t have access to condoms.”
So these same individuals will have “access” to a ridiculously expensive drug? Of course not. The taxpayers will need to pay for a multi-tiered outreach and delivery system of neighborhood programs, medics, and bureaucrats to facilitate said “access” in the at-risk communities.
I guess the cure is a shot in the butt.
Lol. You ask too many questions. :)
I can’t stop chucklin’ from the obama- finger fiddlin’ -going on in Ben’s pic. lol
Not to mention supplying the whole of Africa with the meds. At American taxpayers’ expense!
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