Doctors should offer a daily HIV prevention pill to healthy people who are at high risk of getting infected with the virus, an influential healthcare panel recommended.
reiterated its long-standing advice that everyone ages 15 to 65 — and anyone who's pregnant — should be regularly screened, a step to early, life-saving treatment.Studies show that if people who are still healthy take certain HIV drugs every day, it dramatically reduces their chances of being infected by an HIV-positive sexual partner or from injection drug use., or preexposure prophylaxis.
The task force said PrEP is only for people at high risk of infection. That includes anyone with an HIV-positive sex partner; who has sex without a condom with someone at high risk of HIV; or who shares needles while injecting drugs.were published in the Journal of the American Medical Assn. Other medical groups also urge Truvada for prevention, yet just 17% of people who might benefit were prescribed it last year, according to an accompanying editorial.
Private insurers follow task force recommendations on what preventive care to cover, some at no out-of-pocket cost under rules from former President Obama's healthcare law. "How this recommendation will be implemented is of critical importance because cost is a major barrier,"
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