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Drugs May Offer AIDS Prevention

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the here's-hoping dept.

FlipFlopSnowMan writes "There is an interesting article on MSNBC about the possibility of preventing AIDS using the same pills that are currently used to fight the virus in affected individuals." From the article: "The drugs are tenofovir (Viread) and emtricitabine, or FTC (Emtriva), sold in combination as Truvada by Gilead Sciences Inc., a California company best known for inventing Tamiflu, a drug showing promise against bird flu. Unlike vaccines, which work through the immune system -- the very thing HIV destroys -- AIDS drugs simply keep the virus from reproducing. They already are used to prevent infection in health care workers accidentally exposed to HIV, and in babies whose pregnant mothers receive them."

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  1. Time for the.... by Aqua+OS+X · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Time for Slashdot's quarterly "AIDs might be cured" story.

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  2. Abstinence huh? by friendswelcome · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Well this is slashdot ;)

  3. Slashdotters at risk? by Jeff+Hornby · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hmmm...

    AIDS is a sexually transmitted disease. Which means that ou have to have sex to contract it. So I guess Slashdotters aren't really at risk.

    Move along. Nothing to see here...

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