Emtricitabine / Tenofovir

But I w- I'm definitely interested in your opinion about what do you think how they are changing fertility care or what you think in the future can happen.

We have read a Truvada coming out soon, and there's three, four, five other drugs in the works by other pharmaceuticals.

So what would you say has been your experience so far, and what do you see?

I've seen wonderful things from them.

Now, there's a couple of different ways that it does work, but in general, in Australia, we use a generic drug.

The brand name used to be Truvada, but we have a generic version now.

It's either a daily tablet that you take or for certain populations, they can take event-based or prep-on-demand.

It's very well tolerated and it is almost 100% effective at reducing or at stopping the transmission of HIV.

Pre-exposure prophylaxis, PrEP, was first approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2012 to prevent HIV infection.

The standard regimen, a daily oral tablet called Truvada, works well.

The problem is that it only works when people actually take it every day, and adherence at that frequency is hard to sustain, particularly in the communities PrEP is supposed to reach.

One review estimated that fewer than 30% of people who started daily oral PrEP remained protected six months later, mainly due to discontinuation or inconsistent use.

Mm-hmm.

Um, most people don't know that that only works with Truvada.

It doesn't work with the newer medication, um, Des- Descovy.

Mm-hmm.

Right? Because the, the medication dose that in the, in the pills is very different, right? So the 2-1-1 only works with Truvada.

Truvada.

The old one.

And ...

It causes several cancers and diseases.

is bad for you like it's not a fun one this is not bragging rights you want not to ever catch this so the first one Truvada was approved in 2012 if this is the first that you're hearing Addie says, it causes cancers.

Yes, several.

AIDS was such a big deal because people were like, what the fuck? Why are these people getting really weird, obscure, unusual cancers in clusters? Like weird cancer clusters.

It's terrible.

Like the history around AIDS is just awful.

In 2012, Truvada was finally approved to use as pre-exposure prophylaxis.

Most of you, if you have insurance, your insurance probably covers it because it is far cheaper in the long run to prevent an illness than to treat the illness.