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Daily drug shown effective in preventing HIV infections

Additional preexposure prophylaxis options now under development

Truvada pill

AT RISK  Recent studies have found that Truvada, a drug to prevent HIV infection in people at risk of exposure to the virus, is effective when taken daily.

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By Laura Beil

- More than 2 years ago

After a decade of controversy and halting progress, preexposure prophylaxis may finally be about to take its place in the vanguard of AIDS prevention.