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Expert Panel Recommends Wider Use Of Daily Pill To Prevent HIV Infections

The Food and Drug Administration approved the use of Truvada to prevent infection with HIV of people at high risk in 2012.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has a new recommendation aimed at preventing HIV infections and AIDS. The influential panel's guidance says people at high risk of being infected with HIV should be offered preventive antiretroviral medications — taken in a daily pill.

There's lots of evidence that pre-exposure prophylaxis — also known as PrEP — is effective. The

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