The maker of Truvada, the once-a-day pill that protects users against HIV, has agreed to donate enough medication to cover as many as 200,000 people for 11 years
By Lenny Bernstein Lenny Bernstein Reporter covering health and medicine Email Bio Follow May 9 at 7:42 PM The pharmaceutical company that makes a once-a-day pill that protects users against HIV has agreed to donate enough medication to cover as many as 200,000 people for 11 years, the Trump administration announced Thursday.
“The majority of Americans who are at risk and who could protect themselves with PrEP are still not receiving the medication,” Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said in a statement. “This agreement will help close that gap substantially.” Taken daily, PrEP is more than 90 percent effective at preventing sexual transmission of the virus and more than 70 percent effective at blocking it among people who inject street drugs and share needles. Only about 10 to 20 percent of the 1.1 million people considered at risk of contracting HIV are on PrEP. A disproportionate number of those not on medication are black and Latino men who have sex with other men.
“It will make a great difference in the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, and it will be a tremendous step toward ending the epidemic,” he said.
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