PrEP effective in injection drug users

  • June 12, 2013
  • Read the Perspective from Carlos del Rio, MD

Prophylactic treatment with tenofovir disoproxil fumarate reduced the incidence of HIV infection among injection drug users, according to data published in The Lancet.

“This study completes the picture of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) efficacy for all major HIV risk groups,” Michael Martin, MD, chief of HIV clinical research for the Thailand Ministry of Public Health – US CDC Collaboration, said in a press release. “We now know that PrEP can be a potentially vital option for HIV prevention in people at very high risk for infection, whether through sexual transmission or injection drug use.”

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