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JAMA. Preexposure Prophylaxis for HIV Infection

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Emeritus
[Source: The Journal of the American Medical Association, full text: (LINK). Extract, edited.]


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Preexposure Prophylaxis for HIV Infection



Robert Steinbrook, MD

Author Affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
JAMA. 2012;():1-2. doi:10.1001/jama.2012.9885

Published online July 20, 2012


On July 16, 2012, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a daily oral antiretroviral drug to reduce the risk of sexual acquisition of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection by uninfected adults.<SUP> </SUP>Emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (marketed by Gilead as Truvada) contains 2 nucleoside analogue HIV-1 reverse transcriptase inhibitors. Initially approved in 2004 to treat HIV infection in combination with other antiretroviral medications in people 12 years of age and older, emtricitabine/tenofovir costs about $13 900 a year in the United States for a year of treatment.

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