{"id":721,"date":"2012-07-21T11:25:03","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T11:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.better2know.co.uk\/?p=721"},"modified":"2024-02-23T13:51:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T13:51:40","slug":"usa-hiv-prevention-drug-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/usa-hiv-prevention-drug-approved\/","title":{"rendered":"USA: HIV prevention drug approved"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fda.gov\">FDA<\/a> (Food and Drug Administration) in the United States, has approved the use of a drug called Truvada to prevent HIV.<\/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>The drug has been approved as a pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to help prevent people at a high risk of contracting the virus from catching it.&nbsp; The FDA are promoting this alongside safe sex, counselling and regular HIV testing, and the FDA commissioner Margaret&nbsp; Hamburg said: \u201cToday\u2019s approval marks an important milestone in our fight against HIV&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PrEP is an important tool in fighting the spread of HIV, and may be of particular interest to couples where one partner is HIV+, particularly if they are trying to have a baby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A clinical trial is starting in the UK this autumn to look at the effectiveness of PrEP and long term implications of its use.&nbsp; The trial will be called PROUD, (Pre-exposure Option for Preventing HIV in the UK), and is a joint project between the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrc.ac.uk\">Medical Research Council<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpa.org.uk\">Health Protection Agency<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Better2Know offers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/std-sti-testing\/hiv-testing\">confidential HIV testing<\/a> with the fastest results available in all its nationwide clinics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) in the United States, has approved the use of a drug called Truvada to prevent HIV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[645,678,908,1400,766,735,2632,597],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721"}],"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=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8054,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions\/8054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}