Truvada prevents HIV infection--now what?When the results of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), agency of the U.S. Public Health Service since 1973, with headquarters in Atlanta; it was established in 1946 as the Communicable Disease Center. study were announced in March showing that Truvada, a popular AIDS drug, prevented HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. infection in monkeys, some saw an answer to the problem of unsafe sex among young gay men. But the prospect of giving Truvada as a precaution to such high-risk individuals was troubling at best. "I've had people make comments to me, 'Aren't you just making the world safer for unsafe sex?" said one team leader for the CDC See Control Data, century date change and Back Orifice. CDC - Control Data Corporation study. Even Truvada's manufacturer, Gilead Sciences Gilead Sciences NASDAQ: GILD is a biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes therapeutics to advance the care of patients suffering from life-threatening diseases. , which donated pills to the CDC study and others, is backing away from any suggestion that its best-selling drug should be given to healthy people to prevent HIV infection, saying that more clinical trials involving humans need to be done first. |
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