HIV Drug is 100 percent effective according to recent study
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The Department of Health & Human Services estimates that 50,000
Americans are diagnosed with HIV each year. African American, especially black males being particularly at risk. More than 13,700 people
diagnosed with AIDS, the syndrome that develops with advanced-stage HIV
infection, died in 2012, and about 658,500 Americans diagnosed with AIDS
have died overall.
In an accompanying commentary for the study, Kimberly A. Koester and
Robert M. Grant, of the University of California, San Francisco, who
were not involved in the research, described the study results as
“tremendously good news.”
“It is time for a vigorous conversation about sexually transmitted
infections, too long eclipsed by fear of HIV infection,” they wrote.
HIV Drug is 100 percent effective according to recent study
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“Without a control group, we don’t know if these STI rates were
higher than what we would have seen without PrEP,” co-author Julia
Marcus, PhD, MPH, postdoctoral fellow at the Kaiser Permanente Division
of Research, said in the news release.
Bradley Hare, MD, director of HIV Care and Prevention at Kaiser
Permanente San Francisco said in the release that people taking Truvada
should undergo routine STI and HIV testing. The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that people on PrEP get tested
for STIs every six months. Hare also advised those individuals to
monitor themselves for known side effects from the drug, like changes in
kidney function.
Even though this current study suggests some limitations for the drug,
experts say the findings hold promise for stopping HIV completely.
According to the CDC, more than 1.2 million people in the United
States are living with HIV infection, and one in eight aren't even aware of it. One in four new HIV infections is
among people ages 13 to 24.
HIV Drug is 100 percent effective according to recent study
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Earlier clinical trials suggested that it had a prevention
rate of about 86%, but the current study shows 100%!
Critics say the daily pill will encourage 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.
In the Kaiser Permanente study, HIV infection was prevented despite
participants changing sexual behavior, including partners and
condom use, six months into the study.
What researchers have not reported is the participants adherence to
the drug, which is a daily pill, and they noted that while
HIV infections were prevented among the entire study group, Truvada did
not stop infection of other sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
HIV Drug is 100 percent effective according to recent study
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A study published by the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases
showed the controversial daily pill pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)
prevented HIV infection in all 657 patients who took it for two and a
half years.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a fixed-dose
treatment of emtricitabine and tenofovir for people who do not have HIV
but may be at risk of contracting it back in 2012. 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.”
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