Taking Anti-HIV Meds Prior to Exposure May Help Prevent Infection

<p>TUESDAY, May 29 (<span>HealthDay News</span>) — Preventive <span>antiretroviral treatment</span>
appears to be an effective approach to assistance strengthen high-risk people against<span>HIV infection</span>, a new investigate suggests.</p>
<p>HIV, a pathogen that causes AIDS, can be transmitted by unprotected
sex and infested needles.</p>
<p>Immediate diagnosis after <span>HIV exposure</span> can be successful in preventing
HIV infection, prior investigate has found. More recently, several large
randomized, tranquil trials — a bullion customary of medical research, in
which people are incidentally reserved to diagnosis or no diagnosis — have
shown that giving antiretroviral drugs before people are exposed
may also forestall infection.</p>
<p>For a new report, published May 28 in a CMAJ (Canadian Medical
Association Journal), researchers reviewed studies published between
January 1990 and Apr ...