Drug moves toward FDA approval for HIV prevention

Wednesday, May 9, 2012 - 00:00 in Health & Medicine

The FDA says Truvada, which has been used for years to help manage HIV, appears to be safe and effective in preventing the virus that causes AIDS. WASHINGTON — A pill that has long been used to treat HIV has moved a step closer to becoming the first drug approved in the U.S. to prevent healthy people from becoming infected with the virus that causes AIDS.

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