A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel is debating whether to make history by recommending approval of the first drug to prevent HIV infection. The advisory committee is expected to vote on ...

Generally, Medicare Part B, Part C, and Part D plans are required to cover both generic emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate and brand-name Truvada for HIV prevention (PrEP) and treatment. If ...

Yesterday the Food and Drug Administration gave the first green light on a drug to prevent HIV transmission. Many experts say the drug will help hasten the end of the AIDS pandemic. But experts in ...

Women need daily doses of the antiviral medication Truvada to prevent HIV infection while men only need two doses per week due to the way the drug accumulates in different body tissues, according to a ...

A long-awaited generic version of Truvada, used for both HIV treatment and PrEP, went on the market Friday, October 2. But the wholesale cost of the new pill from Teva Pharmaceuticals – about $1,455 – ...

Truvada is a medication that belongs to a class of drugs known as antiretrovirals. A doctor may prescribe this medication to treat or prevent HIV infections. In order for Medicare to cover Truvada, ...

Preventing new HIV infections is becoming more difficult for nonprofit health clinics. Three things have changed: Pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences Inc. ended a program last year that clinics ...

Last week and for the first time in history, a man on a regular regimen of the HIV-preventing drug Truvada somehow became infected with a rare form of the virus. One might imagine that the experience ...

A combination drug used to treat and prevent HIV -- Truvada -- may have an additional benefit: lowering the risk of a genital herpes infection, a new study suggests. Researchers found that African ...

Friday, May 20, 2022 (San Diego, U.S.)—Research from the University of California released in Clinical Infectious Diseases demonstrates that ingestible sensor-enabled Truvada®, taken as pre-exposure ...