The facts about Truvada

There is more information showing about the daily medicine for HIV and they call it Truvada. It can help in preventing HIV spread in gay and in bisexuals. It can also help with contracting AIDS that causes the virus.  The treatment is known as the PreP or the pre-exposure prophylaxis, which is quite efficient when it comes to averting the new HIV infections and must also be linked to the HIV prevention toolkit for gay who are at risk of being infected with HIV. This information is according to the British researchers.

In the past studies, they have shown that Truvada, a combination of tenofovir and emricitabine to help lessen the risk of HIV infection. However, it was not clear if the pros of this treatment to prevent HIV may be counterbalanced by the rising behavioral risk of those who still believed that the medicine has secured them against the virus according to a study made and published in the news journal.  The team of researchers has led Ms. McCormack by a university in London to do some investigations about the issue. The trial is random and it was made with 14 sexual health clinics in England, wherein HIV negative gays who have just experienced an anal sex once without the use of condom in 3 months.

2 groups who went through the study

The researchers have designated in a random manner the 275 men to get the Truvada ASAP. There is another group of men who got the treatment after there was a delay of 1 year. The researchers have made a follow up with the men after 90 days. Those who have participated and the researchers were very much aware of the treatment group.  Based on the findings suggested, the PrEP is very much effective; the trial steering committee has suggested that in October of 2014, all of the participants in the delayed group who got the treatment will be offered by the preventive cure.

The men who were given the treatment right away, 3 HIV infections treated, when compared to the twenty in the delayed treatment group according to the study. The researchers have checked those who belong to the treatment group and had an average of 86% less in the risk of HIV infections when compared to the group that got delayed treatment.  In the meantime, the occurrence of the STIs like the syphilis, chlamydia and gonorrhea was close to the treatment groups. The time for the precautionary measure is more than the HIV prevention services must be extended across the globe by offering the PrEP in a routine manner.

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