Members Lucky Posted March 1, 2011 Members Posted March 1, 2011 Remember last year when Truvada was being touted as a breakthrough in AIDS prevention? Reality has now hit home: "Three months later, the advance has hit a wall. While study findings show the drug prevents HIV in noninfected, sexually active gay men, doctors say they're wary about giving healthy people a $12,000-a-year medicine that has side effects including nausea and kidney damage, and may not be used as regularly as needed. They also say they're not often asked to make the drug available for that use." Says Martin Markowitz, clinical director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City. "People who can't use a condom, are they likely to take a pill every day?" he asked. "And in the real world, who will pay?" Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/02/28/BU101I09P4.DTL#ixzz1FMcSkXAu Quote
Members Lucky Posted April 18, 2011 Author Members Posted April 18, 2011 The Truvada train has derailed completely now that a study in Africa was halted when it showed that women taking Truvada were just as likely to get HIV as women not taking it: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/04/18/state/n051845D59.DTL&tsp=1http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/04/18/state/n051845D59.DTL&tsp=1 (Why do I so often mispell a word in the title, when that is one thing we cannot edit after it goes up?) Quote
