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come and join me sing halleluyah..
jehova jireh has done me well..
come and join me sing halleluyah..
Jehova jireh has done me well... come and join me.

I bless d name of d Lord for dis great news

berem: F**king mood activated!!!

asl please. i got that viagra and truvada to jaga ur punana.

Does insurance cover this one? Raw dog shawty, here I come

Bear in mind people that the drug needs to be taken daily for effect, and it costs $14,000. It doesn't make much sense to start saving toward it except:

1. You are a very well paid commercial sex worker who doesn't like to use condoms, or who is ready to pay for all the extra protection you can get

2. You have a spouse with HIV

3. You are in some other job/ situation where you have an extremely high chance of catching the virus regardless of how careful you are.

The everyday man's best bet is to keep with the traditional - abstain from risky behaviour. I think that the drug might actually come with some increase in risky behaviours sef, until people realize they can't keep up with taking it daily, or they can't afford it anymore.

It's a super fantastic step in the right direction though..... soon there will be a cure.

DICKtator:

asl please. i got that viagra and truvada to jaga ur punana.

guy u no well o! Lmao!!

Pls take it easy ooo...
This is not freedom to start an all out ponyo.
AIDS is still real ooooo.....
Meanwhile,the drug has not gone round yet and abstinance is still the ultimate.

sorry to burst your bubble but please read this before the celebrations:
There's something new to prevent HIV infections.

The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved a once-a-day pill that can drastically lower a person's risk of getting the AIDS virus.

It's called Truvada — the first HIV prevention pill.

It's not cheap – around $13,000 a year – and it's not clear what insurers will pay for it. And there's worry that people taking the pill might relax safe-sex precautions.


But health officials hope the pill will help reduce the number of Americans who get HIV every year – a figure that has hovered around 50,000 for years.

While it sounds simple, the new prevention strategy involves a bunch of complicated issues.

"It's not just, 'Here's a pill, take it, and you're rendered protected," says Dr. Kenneth Mayer of the Fenway Community Health Center in Boston. He's been researching the strategy for years. It's called pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP.

Mayer says there's one very important thing people have to know before they start using Truvada for prevention. "We want to be sure before starting a person on PrEP that they're not HIV-infected," he says.

That's because Truvada alone isn't good enough to treat HIV. The virus could develop resistance to the drug if it's the only antiviral someone's taking. For the same reason, people on Truvada who are HIV-negative have to get retested for HIV every few months.

Then people have to commit to taking the pill every day. If they don't, the protection drops off quickly. If they do, studies show they can lower their risk of getting HIV by 90 percent.

Finally, people also have to keep using condoms and limiting their number of sexual partners, just as if they weren't taking the pill.

"Are people going to be numbed into a sense of security that they can have unprotected sex whenever they want if they're going to be taking this medication?" Mayer says. "The answer is we just don't know."

So far studies haven't found an increase in riskier behavior.

All these issues are complex enough that Mayer doesn't expect an avalanche of people using Truvada anytime soon. "It's certainly not something for everyone," he says.

One group it may be for are committed couples who are what doctors call "discordant" when it comes to HIV – one partner has it, the other doesn't. Couples like James Callahan and Kevin Kirk of San Francisco.

"I'm positive and he's negative," Callahan says. "I don't know that we identify that way, but it's just a fact." Kirk adds: "From my end, I've never really put a lot of thought into it."

Kirk and Callahan have been together more than five years. Recently they sat down and talked about whether Kevin, the HIV-negative partner, might want to start taking Truvada.

At first he was wary of the idea. But 40 minutes into the discussion he said something that surprised his partner.

"That would make you sleep a little better at night," Kirk said.

"It would?" Callahan responded.

"It would, yeah. I think so."

"So, say...you won the lottery and you got to take the pill for free for the rest of your life. Would you do it just to be safe?" Callahan asked.

"Probably, yeah. Yeah, probably would."

"Interesting," said Callahan. As he thought about it more, he began to warm to the idea.

"If we didn't take the pill and you were to become positive," Callahan said, "someday I would definitely say Why didn't we? Why didn't we?"

They didn't make a decision on the spot. But they're definitely thinking about it.

But in the bigger picture, Kevin Kirk probably isn't the most important kind of candidate to be taking Truvada for prevention. After all, Callahan is on antiviral treatment, which has lowered the amount of HIV in his blood to undetectable levels.

Ken Mayer says some argue that it wouldn't be necessary for a man like Kirk to take Truvada for prevention. But he thinks it's not cut-and-dried. "If you say, 'Is it possible that my partner could transmit HIV to me?' the answer is yes, it's possible. Does it happen often? No, it's exceedingly rare." But studies have shown that HIV can still exist in semen, even when it can't be found in the blood.

However, Mayer says it would be more important to get Truvada to men and women who have a much higher risk of infection. They might live in places like Washington, D.C., where men have a one-in-17 chance of getting infected and thus are at risk of infecting their partners.

Dr. Deborah Cohan, an obstetrician-gynecologist at the University of California San Francisco, says Truvada will be really important for women in such couples.

"She is not particularly able to ensure condom use consistently," says Cohen of such women. "She does not have control in that way in their sexual dynamics. He may or may not be on anti-retroviral therapy. But certainly there's no way for her to force him to take those medications."

Cohan has already been prescribing Truvada for women in these situations. Even before FDA approval, individual doctors could do that because the drug's already on the market for treating HIV.

"The woman who I've given Truvada are so immensely appreciative that they have some control over whether they get HIV or not," Cohan says.

And there's one subset of heterosexual couples for whom Truvada will be a special boon – one where the woman is uninfected, the man has HIV, and they want to conceive a child.

Currently the only safe way to do that is a complicated and expensive process called sperm-washing. The man's sperm is treated so it's free of the virus, and then the woman's egg is fertilized in the laboratory and implanted in her uterus.

Prescribing Truvada for her can avoid all that.

Cohan says about 75,000 US couples could benefit.

U wan try! Naija no go carry last! Let the sex carnival begin!!

megxo: ASIN......NA RAISE TO THE POWER INFINITY

blaise26.abj:
sorry to burst your bubble but please read this before the celebrations:
There's something new to prevent HIV infections.

The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved a once-a-day pill that can drastically lower a person's risk of getting the AIDS virus.

It's called Truvada — the first HIV prevention pill.

It's not cheap – around $13,000 a year – and it's not clear what insurers will pay for it. And there's worry that people taking the pill might relax safe-sex precautions.

Now, the bold part is all I'm interested in.

If my insurance pays for it, I might give it a try

NigeriaKwenu: For dem to release this one na im be say e get new disease wey them wan introduce to the market.

Afam4eva

Or they have made enough money from rubber or they have discovered better use for latex or they are running out of aids cash or ......... Or ."

Why won't they approve it?
1- They'll generate more revenue off their costly product.
2- Their depopulation plan goes on.
With a new drug resistant virus underway, the damage ahead is better imagined!
You ppl hailing unprotected sex better think twice about it. We only live once, lets not make it a painful and sad one.
God Help Us.

Choi, if this drug enter nigeria, HIV would increase by @least 70%, cos we should be xpecting the original fake of the drug frm china... Some people would cry in tongues...

So much jubilation in d air over a drug that's got 30% risk aside being pretty expensive to boot *smh* ....kudos to d sci's anyway

Truvada has been in Nigeria, it is sold in Pharmacies in Nigeria, for HIV tretment.
Hv sold it, it is not a new drug, only approved for a diff use.

NigeriaKwenu: For dem to release this one na im be say e get new disease wey them wan introduce to the market.

Afam4eva

The solution to HIV menace and STD has already been discovered 50years ago by an American Jewish called Al Saimon even b4 d so called Truvada but the US FDA will not propagate it b'cos it is nt drug and it is more affordable.Check dis link for more info: http://cleanshieldint.com

The rate of abortion & unwanted babies will soon increase! I'll not be part of this experiment cos it's not up to 99% safe.

South Africans need am badly

HOPE SAY D "CHINKO" OS "ABA MADE" TYPE NO GO DE IN CIRCULATION......

Lady Gaga:
God Bless America .... It's a GOOD NEWS for many.How long will it take for these tablets to become available in NAIJA??

Lady Gaga has arrived NL, hmmm Goldie senior sister don dey here make I see how una take dey bash Goldie again because of that yeye prezzo. Gaga welcome ooo

Let's do the math before we celebrate

Truvada = $14,000
$14,000 = N2,280,000

From the above calculation gold circle condom remains the number one CHOICE.

Moral decadence...A writer once said- 'when d forces of modernity comes in contact with d rustic life of a countryside;castastrophy is inevitably d end...l'm afraid of d promiscuity rate if dis drug finds it way 2 9ja...God save us.

Nothing beats the use of condoms. One might develop resistance to this Truvada due to constant use and as such one still stands a high risk of getting infected with an infected person. I still prefer my Gold circle condom even if it is that cheap...

These ppl keep devising means of making cool money out of this HIV shit. 14000 dolls again...why can't de jus bring out d cure frm where they locked it? SEXUAL COLONIASM

read this before you gyrate:

TRUVADA is also used in HIV negative adults along with safer sex practices to reduce the risk of getting HIV-1 in men who have sex with men who are at high risk for getting infected with HIV-1 through sex, and heterosexual couples where one partner has HIV-1 and the other does not. This is called Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis or PrEP.

TRUVADA blocks the action of a protein that HIV needs to infect your body
TRUVADA does not cure HIV or AIDS.
TRUVADA alone may not keep you from getting HIV.
If you have HIV infection, you may still get other infections that happen in people with HIV like TB (tuberculosis) or fungus, while taking TRUVADA.

Another method to defraud the poor nations. If they
can find a preventive drug why can`t they find a cure for the virus.
They brought HIV to this world to be using it a money making means.
Many people ve said that they ve cure to HIV but US will not allow
it to see the light of the day. they make us believe they are the
only one that can provide solution.

3sky: Another method to defraud the poor nations. If they
can find a preventive drug why can`t they find a cure for the virus.
They brought HIV to this world to be using it a money making means.
Many people ve said that they ve cure to HIV but US will not allow
it to see the light of the day. they make us believe they are the
only one that can provide solution.

Broda u are absolutely correct,,,, As far as i am concern,,, the HIV virus was invented by the so called world powers,,, pls brethren there is nothing like HIV in the real sense,,,its just a fraud along with media propaganda,,,

God help Humanity,,,,

chucky234: Let's do the math before we celebrate

Truvada = $14,000
$14,000 = N2,280,000

From the above calculation gold circle condom remains the number one CHOICE.

my brother skin-to-skin sensation >>>>>>>>>> 2,280,000 we are taking organ-to-organ something dont u get?

I wonder why people are jubilating about news on truvada ! What about Hepatitis B virus, Human pappiloma virus ? What about the new strain of gonococcal bacteria ? The best method still remain abstinence/faithful to your partner.