FDA favors initial drug for HIV prevention

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal drug regulators on Tuesday endorsed landmark investigate formula display that a renouned HIV-fighting tablet can also assistance healthy people equivocate constrictive a pathogen that causes AIDS in a initial place. While a tablet appears stable and effective for prevention, scientists stressed that it customarily works when taken on a daily basis.
The Food and Drug Administration will reason a assembly Thursday to plead either Truvada should be authorized for people who are during risks of constrictive HIV by passionate intercourse. The agencys certain examination posted Tuesday suggests a daily tablet will turn a initial drug authorized to forestall HIV infection in high-risk patients.
FDA reviewers interpretation that holding Truvada pre-emptively could gangling patients infection with a critical and life-threatening illness that requires lifelong treatment.
Despite a certain results, reviewers pronounced that patients contingency be committed abou...