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  • HIV prevention pill gives new hope

    Could we be one step closer to a world without HIV AIDS?Hopes are rising after a panel of US health experts has, for the first time, backed a drug to prevent HIV infection in healthy people.

    May 11, 2012
    PrEP
    ABC Radio Australia

  • US regulators vote for approval of PrEP by large majority

    The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took a decisive step yesterday towards approving the use of the combination pill Truvada (tenofovir/FTC) as a prevention method for HIV-negative people.

    May 11, 2012
    PrEP
    aidsmap

  • Risk of unprotected sex debated in Gilead HIV pill review

    Truvada is safe and effective enough as a preventative medicine, Food and Drug Administration staff concluded in a report yesterday.

    May 9, 2012
    PrEP
    Bloomberg News

  • New studies on HIV treatment as prevention

    Recent studies have shown that antiretroviral drugs can be used not only to treat HIV, but also to prevent infection in the first place.

    April 25, 2012
    PrEP
    Voice of America

  • HIV prevention studies present tangled web

    The story of pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV -- using medications to prevent infection -- was anything but easy to understand at the CROI.

    March 12, 2012
    PrEP
    MedPage Today

  • Setback on AIDS drugs is re-evaluated

    The failure of a daily pill to protect healthy African women against AIDS may not have been the pill’s fault but the women’s reluctance to take it, scientists at an important AIDS conference in Seattle were told this week.

    March 12, 2012
    PrEP
    New York Times

  • Fight over use of HIV drugs

    Scientists are scrutinizing a new approach to preventing the spread of HIV that involves healthy people taking drugs to keep them from being infected by partners with the virus that causes AIDS.

    March 7, 2012
    PrEP
    Wall Street Journal

  • AIDS prevention inspires ways to make circumcisions easier

    The day of the assembly-line circumcision is drawing closer.

    January 30, 2012
    Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision
    New York Times

  • Science: 2011 Breakthrough of the Year

    The journal Science has named an AIDS study as its 2011 Breakthrough of the Year. The clinical trial found that antiretroviral drugs can be used to dramatically lower the risk of transmitting HIV. The clinical trial is known as HPTN 052. It proved that giving the drugs to HIV infected people sooner made them 96 percent less likely to transmit the virus to their uninfected partners.

    December 28, 2011
    Treatment
    Voice of America

  • Three big developments make AIDS outlook more hopeful

    In the nearly 30 years the AIDS epidemic has raged, there has never been a more hopeful day than this. Three striking developments took place Tuesday: U.N. officials said new HIV cases are dropping dramatically worldwide. A study showed that a daily pill already on pharmacy shelves could help prevent new infections in gay men. And the pope opened the way for the use of condoms to prevent AIDS.

    December 26, 2011
    Male and Female Condoms, PrEP
    Brattleboro Reformer

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