Posted on 10/19/2018 1:25:24 PM PDT by reaganaut1
Earlier this month, health officials reported the sixth confirmed failure of PrEP globally. The latest instance involved a San Francisco man who was consistently taking the HIV-prevention medicine during the time he contracted the virus.
PrEP, or pre-exposure prophylaxis, involves taking a Truvada pill once daily to stop HIV infection, and it is estimated to be nearly 100 percent effective.
Despite these six failures since Truvada was first approved as an HIV-prevention medication back in 2012, Dr. Stephanie Cohen, the medical director at the San Francisco City Clinic, said unequivocally that PreP is working as expected.
"Nothing is 100 percent effective, unfortunately," Cohen told NBC News.
Theres a part of you that starts to think, Maybe this is 100 percent effective, because this is so amazing,'" she added. But despite not being fail-proof, Truvada is still incredibly effective, especially considering that there are millions of new HIV cases globally each year, with tens of thousands in the U.S. alone.
Cohens clinic has been on the forefront of a nationwide effort to promote and distribute PrEP to at-risk people. The clinic operates one of San Franciscos largest PrEP programs.
Cohen said the latest patient to contract HIV while on PrEP came to the clinic consistently for regular sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing and, after months with no issues, tested positive for HIV. But the patient insisted he had taken a Truvada tablet every day, as instructed. So Cohen and her team decided to dig in.
Just scientifically, we wanted to understand, Cohen said, how can this have occurred.
Using hair and blood samples, they determined the patient had indeed been adherent to the PrEP regiment and had taken Truvada consistently for at least three months.
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The homosexual "community" has not matured and that's, in part, by design of its overseers for political control. We've seen in the culture wars the heterosexual community has devolved likewise into a moral mess of hookups, deception and lies over time. Trust & loyalty are not valued as much as getting away with something.
Comedy Central has some commercials that i wish i had not seen!! 2 homos on the bed giggling about being too distracted to use a rubber, for one. Blech. there are some shows i enjoy, but i don’t care to watch the homo behavior. They fit that crap in everywhere.
That’s disgusting.
Everything about the gay hookup culture is gross. Rampant sex, without condoms, use of methamphetamines to fuel their sex drive. Its really a set of people with zero morals going at in a society that allows anything these days
Thinking that strains don’t mutate is just being stupid. In Alaska they have stands of syphilis in central Alaska that tetracycline and penicillin run and hide from. A number of people have died on an island just north of Japan like a Leprosy colony. I was stationed in central Alaska in 1985 and was well aware of the problem. Great reason for celibasy.
rwood
Homosexuality and sexual libertinism is just a big game of mitigation, trying to put the best face on a horrific activity as possible and working angles to make it somehow seem viable.
Its like insisting on playing Russian Roulette as a right and then asking for a bigger shot count on the cylinder to make it a little safer.
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