Study: New pill greatly reduces HIV risk for men
Submitted by Aries1 on Tue, 2010-11-23 11:53.
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By Cheryl Wetzstein
The Washington Times
8:01 a.m., Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Men who are HIV-negative and who faithfully use a daily pill containing drugs to treat HIV can greatly reduce their risk of acquiring the deadly virus, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) says in a study released on Tuesday.
"These results represent a major advance in HIV prevention research," said Dr. Kevin Fenton, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention.
"For the first time, we have evidence that a daily pill used to treat HIV is partially effective for preventing HIV among gay and bisexual men at high risk for infection, when combined with other prevention strategies," said Dr. Fenton. This is "exciting and welcome news."
The approach is called "pre-exposure prophylaxis," or PREP.
Research subjects who took a pill called Truvada every day — plus used other AIDS-prevention strategies — lowered their risk of getting HIV by about 73 percent.
Men who failed to take the pill every day had only a 21 percent lower risk of getting HIV.
Dr. Fenton cautioned that these results were only for Truvada use in a male homosexual and bisexual population. There are no data regarding Truvada's ability to prevent AIDS among heterosexuals or injection drug users, he said.
It also was only effective with men who are confirmed as HIV-negative and who practiced additional prevention strategies such as consistently using condoms, getting treatment for other sexually transmitted diseases and reducing the number of sex partners.
An estimated 56,000 persons acquire HIV each year, and more than half of them are gay and bisexual men, the CDC said.
Men who have sex with men (MSM) represent "nearly half of all people living with HIV in the U.S., and the rate of new HIV diagnoses among MSM is more than 44 times that of other men," the CDC said. "Moreover, data suggests that HIV infections have been steadily increasing in this group since the mid-1990s."
"It's a promising tool," but who will pay for it and how will the MSM community be taught about it, Ernest Hopkins, legislative director at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, told AIDS.gov video this summer.
The NIH results were scheduled to be published online in the New England Journal of Medicine Tuesday morning.
URL: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/nov/23/study-new-pill-greatly-reduces-hiv-risk-men/
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