Previous My PrEP Experience Posts

Monday, June 17, 2013

CDC Updates Interim PrEP Guidance to Include Injecting Drug Users

via CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

On June 12, 2013, the Thailand Ministry of Health and CDC published results from a randomized controlled trial of a daily oral dose of 300 mg of tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) that showed efficacy in reducing the acquisition of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among injecting drug users (IDUs) (1). Based on these findings, CDC recommends that preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) be considered as one of several prevention options for persons at very high risk for HIV acquisition through the injection of illicit drugs.

Read the rest.



 

No comments:

Post a Comment