Preventive Treatment

[rsvljedi]

My HIV- girlfriend has asked me to find out about a med being
used for HIV treatment that has entered a testing phase for HIV
prevention.
Around the first of the year in 2006, I had read about a current
treatment which was showing promise as a preventative med in
testing. Shortly after I mentioned this to her, she also heard a brief
story about it on the radio.
She has recently asked me what the med was and for the life of me
I cannot remember the name of the med. She is wanting to talk to
her insurance about it, although I am afriad she is going to be
disappointed with their response.
Does anyone else recall this story and the name of the medication
that was used? I seem to remember they were beginning human
testing on a fairly large scale when the story came out.

[trellium]

They are Viread (tenofovir) and Truvada (tenofovir + emtricitabine)

Practicing safe sex is still her best bet for now

Here is an article on cnn.com about the spotlight on prevention especially for women
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/08/16/aids.transmission.cnn/

and another about the results from an early clinical trial that investigated the potential use of tenofovir and Gilead's combination pill Truvada as pre-exposure prophylaxis to prevent HIV transmission
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?hint=1&DR_ID=39118