via AIDS Treatment News, by John S. James
This is an excellent description of the iPrEx study that showed daily Truvada could protect against HIV, and the implications for gay men.
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This is an excellent description of the iPrEx study that showed daily Truvada could protect against HIV, and the implications for gay men.
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Read the rest.No one we know thinks that all gay men should take Truvada.
But using this new prevention option in a targeted way should help a lot to control the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Remember that in any epidemic, if each person infected infects fewer than one other person on the average, and this can be maintained, then the epidemic will end.
And it turns out that a disproportionate amount of transmission takes place very early in someone's HIV infection -- when viral load is extremely high, but people do not know and seldom even suspect that they are infected, so they are much less careful about risk to others, than if they did know their status.
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