Your PrEP Questions, Answered

Nurx’s PrEP Navigator guest posted about Truvada for PrEP on Mango Health’s blog. Here’s a sample of her article:

How effective is PrEP?
Very! PrEP’s effectiveness was originally proven by the iPrEx study, which spanned more than two years and was conducted in many cities in six different countries. The initial results showed 44% effectiveness in stopping HIV transmissions.

However, these findings lumped together people who took their PrEP pills all the time, some of the time, and those who really didn’t take them at all. When study subjects’ blood was analyzed, those who took Truvada pills every day saw their HIV risk reduced by 99%. Those who took the pill four days out of the week still had a 96% reduction in HIV risk.

Read the rest of Jayne’s post, “Your PrEP Questions, Answered,” at http://blog.mangohealth.com/post/150495579808/your-prep-questions-answered.