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HIV Prevention and Testing => How Can I Prevent HIV? => Topic started by: Ptrk3 on October 20, 2016, 03:37:35 pm

Title: Second Man Contracts Rare HIV Strain While Apperently on PrEP
Post by: Ptrk3 on October 20, 2016, 03:37:35 pm

From the October 19, 2016, edition of POZ magazine. 

https://www.poz.com/article/second-man-contracts-rare-hiv-strain-apparently-adhering-prep

Fortunately, this is such an exceedingly rare event (only the second documented case, if true), it becomes newsworthy.  Perhaps, it's a matter of the "exception proving the rule" on the great effectiveness of Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).

From the story:

A New York City physician has documented a case in which a male patient taking Truvada (tenofovir/emtricitabine) as pre-exposure prophylaxis contracted a rare, highly drug-resistant strain of HIV while apparently taking PrEP daily as prescribed.
 
This is the second such case of documented PrEP failure in a man who has sex with men (MSM), following the February report at the 2016 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Boston of a Toronto MSM on PrEP who contracted HIV under similar circumstances.
 

Title: Re: Second Man Contracts Rare HIV Strain While Apperently on PrEP
Post by: Jim Allen on October 21, 2016, 02:30:31 am

I agree, only 2 cases just goes to show how effective PrEP is in the real world.  :)