http://blog.aids.gov/2011/02/using-pre-exposure-prophylaxis-prep-as-a-prevention-tool-for-msm-the-promise-comes-with-challenge.html HIV Policy & Programs. Research. New Media. Tue, 21 May 2013 20:39:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.aids.gov/2011/02/using-pre-exposure-prophylaxis-prep-as-a-prevention-tool-for-msm-the-promise-comes-with-challenge.html#comment-1091 mark Sun, 20 Mar 2011 22:16:18 +0000 http://production.aidsblog.icfi.com/2011/02/using-pre-exposure-prophylaxis-prep-as-a-prevention-tool-for-msm-the-promise-comes-with-challenge/#comment-1091 What gets me about these blinded studies for cohorts at higher risk of contracting hiv is the inherent contradiction to the study itself. It represents something of a faux ethics for the practitioners of biological and medical sciences. Ultimately if you are studying msm who practice high risk sexual activities to test the efficacy of a prep or pep then don’t you recruit them exactly on the basis of their high risk activities! It defeats the purpose to give them extensive harm reduction counselling to reduce risk-taking behaviour because it may well be this and not the prep at all that reduces the infection rates in the resulting data – rendering that data negligible in its usefulness at best!

]]> http://blog.aids.gov/2011/02/using-pre-exposure-prophylaxis-prep-as-a-prevention-tool-for-msm-the-promise-comes-with-challenge.html#comment-986 Mike Culver Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:10:10 +0000 http://production.aidsblog.icfi.com/2011/02/using-pre-exposure-prophylaxis-prep-as-a-prevention-tool-for-msm-the-promise-comes-with-challenge/#comment-986 I’m aware of a study that indicated that PrEP decreased the incidence of high-risk behavior among MSM, but the researchers were not sure why. I think PrEP is a heartening development though I can’t help but wonder if in the long-run, PrEP will enhance the attitude of “I’ll do what I want, to whom I want to.” People aren’t afraid of the virus like those of us who lived through the 80′s and early 90′s. The fear seems to have been replaced by the notion that taking a pill will make it as if nothing has happened. Some of my clients take 29 pills a day… I am sort of thinking out loud here, but I really want to know how to wrap my head around this.

]]> http://blog.aids.gov/2011/02/using-pre-exposure-prophylaxis-prep-as-a-prevention-tool-for-msm-the-promise-comes-with-challenge.html#comment-985 Pete Mon, 07 Mar 2011 05:48:57 +0000 http://production.aidsblog.icfi.com/2011/02/using-pre-exposure-prophylaxis-prep-as-a-prevention-tool-for-msm-the-promise-comes-with-challenge/#comment-985 are there any long term side-effects of taking truvada?

]]> http://blog.aids.gov/2011/02/using-pre-exposure-prophylaxis-prep-as-a-prevention-tool-for-msm-the-promise-comes-with-challenge.html#comment-984 Anwar Gubara faragalla Aljack Mon, 28 Feb 2011 04:55:27 +0000 http://production.aidsblog.icfi.com/2011/02/using-pre-exposure-prophylaxis-prep-as-a-prevention-tool-for-msm-the-promise-comes-with-challenge/#comment-984 To be in touch with new informations
Thanks

]]> http://blog.aids.gov/2011/02/using-pre-exposure-prophylaxis-prep-as-a-prevention-tool-for-msm-the-promise-comes-with-challenge.html#comment-983 MME Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:56:05 +0000 http://production.aidsblog.icfi.com/2011/02/using-pre-exposure-prophylaxis-prep-as-a-prevention-tool-for-msm-the-promise-comes-with-challenge/#comment-983 I am a heterosexual female and I take truvada as prep because I am in a relatioship with a HIV positive male. I think the drug is a God send.

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