Up until 2012, there was only one way to protect yourself from acquiring the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) from sex: wearing condoms. While condoms are still a great preventive tool, there’s ...

There is no vaccine for HIV, but you can prevent it. You can lower your chances of getting HIV by taking a medicine for pre-exposure prophylaxis (called PrEP) if: your sex partner is HIV-positive, you ...

What Is PrEP for HIV? PrEP is medicine that helps protect you from HIV. It stands for pre-exposure prophylaxis. “Pre” means before. You take the medicine before you think you might come into contact ...

Sources: Department of Health and Human Services. Washington (DC): HHS; 2019. Press release, Trump administration secures historic donation of billions of dollars in HIV prevention drugs; 2019 May 6; ...

PrEP, short for pre-exposure prophylaxis, is a daily, orally administered pill that is highly effective at preventing HIV. Despite an increase in the number of individuals initiating the use of PrEP ...

Effective implementation of HIV prevention strategies begins with appropriate patient-clinician communication, and one of the most important things a nurse practitioner and physician assistant can do ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has come out with a strong recommendation for the use of Gilead Sciences’ twice-yearly HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) med Yeztugo, ...

Share on Pinterest Research finds a new injectable form of PrEP is superior to daily oral tablets to prevent the contraction of HIV. Sara Jurado/Getty Images New research sheds light on the efficacy ...

In a recent study published in The Lancet HIV, researchers investigated the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) requirement, duration, uptake, and usage among sexual ...

You may have heard about Descovy (des-ko'-vee), a medicine approved by the FDA in 2015. Descovy is approved to treat HIV. It can also help prevent people from getting HIV through sex. People with HIV ...

Increasing patients' out of pocket costs for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), medications, which have been shown to dramatically reduce the risk of HIV infection, could lead to a significant ...

With the FDA’s much-anticipated nod for Gilead Sciences’ long-acting HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) injection Yeztugo (lenacapavir), a new era of HIV prevention has dawned. The approval, which ...