{"id":2839,"date":"2014-06-20T08:15:44","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T08:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2839"},"modified":"2024-02-22T18:49:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T18:49:28","slug":"uk-trial-for-prep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/uk-trial-for-prep\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Trial for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>PrEP or Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis is a prescribed drug to help HIV negative people maintain their status, even if they have unprotected intercourse with someone who is HIV positive.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/pills-2-2-1024x518.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7738\" width=\"768\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/pills-2-2-1024x518.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/pills-2-2-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/pills-2-2-768x388.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/pills-2-2-1536x777.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/pills-2-2-2048x1036.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Trials in the USA have shown that the risk of new HIV infections has been considerably decreased, and the CDC (Centers for Disease Control &#8211; their spelling) has endorsed the use of a daily pill for people who regularly have sex with HIV positive partners.&nbsp; This includes gay men who have sex without a condom, and hetro-sexuals who are considered to be high risk (with a positive partner or who are drug users).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a significant shift in emphasis to prevention of further infections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A trial is now underway in England to determine whether PrEP will lead to reduced condom use, and an accompanying rise in other STIs. There is a two year trial called PROUD which has 550 gay men recruited to it (recruitment is now closed) with the Truvada drug.&nbsp; Campaigners hope that this trial will provide the data the NHS needs to make PrEP widely available.&nbsp; The cost of PrEP is thought to be lower than treating someone who is HIV positive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some experts worry that PrEP will encourage people to be more relaxed and take more risks.&nbsp; Especially if it not taken regularly and only used as a &#8220;party&#8221; drug before unprotected sex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are worried that you or your partner may have been exposed to HIV, then Better2Know can help you to get tested quickly and easily with fast results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PrEP or Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis is a prescribed drug to help HIV negative people maintain their status, even if they have unprotected intercourse with someone who is HIV positive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[8,20],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[989,645,1992,1067,661,678,1005,654,644,704,655,795,1400,647,637,2632,1109],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2839"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7783,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions\/7783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}