HIV Pill Urged for At-Risk Patients to Prevent Infection
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Healthy people at risk of HIV are advised to take daily pills that cut the odds of infection by more than 90 percent, U.S. health officials said in the first formal recommendation on using the drugs as a preventative.
The group urged to take the pills includes people with HIV-infected partners and those who inject illicit drugs and share equipment, or have been in treatment programs for injection medicine use, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a statement. Gilead Sciences Inc.’s anti-AIDS pill Truvada has been approved as a preventative medicine for the virus that causes AIDS.