For individuals who either live with or are at risk of contracting HIV, a medication that provides both (partial) treatment of HIV symptoms and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) against getting the ...

Most doctors agree Truvada is a boon in AIDS prevention; others express concern. July 16, 2012— -- The Food and Drug Adminstration today announced the approval of the first drug for use in people ...

The rising cost of Gilead’s Truvada may be a key factor in why the HIV prevention drug has not been widely used, according to an analysis published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Truvada, also ...

When its U.S. patent cliff for HIV med Truvada was still on the horizon, Gilead Sciences won approval for follow-up med Descovy and launched an aggressive campaign to switch patients to the new drug.

Gilead Sciences will give free Truvada pills to 200,000 uninsured people for the next 11 years to help prevent new HIV infections, the pharmaceutical company said Thursday. The announcement of the ...

Descovy demonstrated continued noninferiority to Truvada for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and statistically significant differences over Truvada for pre-specified secondary end points. In the phase 3, ...

Bracing for generics to big-selling HIV prevention drug Truvada, Gilead Sciences is working to switch patients to its new option, Descovy. But the new med's additional benefits aren't worth the huge ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gilead will be offering free pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in a new partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and ...

COLUMBUS (WCMH) — Life saving for those living with HIV, disease preventing for those at high risk for contracting it, a dual use drug that both treats and prevents HIV is at the center of multiple ...

Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with advertisers on this site. About 38,000 Americans develop HIV each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Two ...

Pharmaceutical giant Gilead has agreed to release its exclusive patent to manufacture and sell the HIV-prevention drug Truvada. This means we could see a generic version of the pre-exposure ...

Editor’s Note: This is the second part of a two-part series on PrEP. Ask a group of gay men what they think of Truvada, and you’re likely to get a response that goes something like this: “I don’t like ...