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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.