From the last three years, there’s a pill in the market which can protect you from getting infected with HIV.
The drug is so effective that only 2 out of the 500 high-risk people taking part in the study got infected over the year long, study, the scientists reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association. And that was also when volunteers continued to have risky, unsafe sex.
About 2 million Indians are at a high-risk for HIV and could hugely benefit from this pill. Sold under the brand name, Truvada, critics have been dismissive of this medication, worrying that a fall-back option will promote unsafe sex and a rise in infections. Precisely why very few people are actually taking this drug, even most physicians aren’t aware that such a “pre-exposure prophylactic” treatment exists.