HIV Preventative Treatments
Year: 2011 & 2016
The Human Immunodeficiency Virus, otherwise known as HIV, is what causes AIDS. Yet today, you’re able to take one pill a day to reduce your risk of catching HIV/AIDS and can reduce the progression of the disease among those that have it. Known as Truvada, it is a wonder drug that has been on the market since 2012. That was due to a massive study that was published in 2011. In 1994, researchers reported that they found a pharmaceutical option to prevent the transmission of HIV from pregnant women to their fetuses. A study then began in 2005, finishing in 2011 with their results. The researchers found a 96% reduction in HIV transmission. Yet all of this was part of a larger 10-year study. The New England Journal of Medicine published the final study in 2016, which showed a 93% reduction in HIV transmission.