Advocates: HIV impediment tablet could save lives

<p>CHICAGO (AP) — A tablet to forestall HIV infection is already being given to some healthy people, though though supervision approval, it stays out of strech and too dear for many who need it.
Doctors, patients and advocates contend that would change if a Food and Drug Administration takes a landmark step and allows a pill, Truvada, to be marketed for prevention. The drug has been used for some time as a diagnosis for those already putrescent with the AIDS virus.
This is a flattering radical step, though we consider its a required step, pronounced Dr. Lisa Sterman of San Francisco, who prescribes a drug for already putrescent patients and those who are healthy though during risk of removing a pathogen from their partners or by unsure sex.
Weve come as distant as we can with condom use and protected sex strategies, Sterman said.
A row of advisers to a Food and Drug Administration late Thursday permitted regulating Truvada as a preventive.
In a 30-year conflict opposite AIDS, its...