Drug to help prevent HIV 'needs to be made available on NHS'

published on December 1, 2015 in The Inside Korea

"The opening of new medical home in Madison and our ongoing dedication to expanding HIV prevention and testing services to all who need them everywhere in Wisconsin are just two of the ways we mark this solemn and important day". That's why the investigators tried a new approach of taking the pills on demand to help people associate sexual activity with prevention.

Although the vast majority of the doctors said that PrEP will reduce HIV infections and they would recommend it to patients, some doctors said there are both pros and cons to the therapy. We need to stop brushing the issue under the carpet and start to take HIV prevention seriously.

Dr. Julio Montaner of the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS said Truvada should be prescribed for sex workers or men who have sex with men but not for intravenous drug users "because there are several harm reduction strategies available" for drug users.

Yes, it's effective as long as you take it, however, there's the stick-to-it problem, Tremblay said of adherence and almost half the men stopped taking the medication which made for poor protection: "It didn't fit their lifestyle, or they got exhausted as people do with long-term medication", she said. The study was double blinded, meaning that neither the participants nor the researchers knew who was receiving what while the study was being undertaken.

"Until PrEP is placed on the PBS, this is the quickest and easiest way to get people taking it. We're really hopeful that by the end of next year we will have seen a huge reduction in new HIV infections".

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