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2. Forty years ago, AIDS was a death sentence. Not today, but ...

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   In 2012, the prevention medication pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) was introduced to help susceptible individuals protect themselves from contracting HIV from sex or injection drug use.

3. Criminal transmission of HIV - Wikipedia

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   Criminal transmission of HIV is the intentional or reckless infection of a person with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This is often conflated, in laws and in discussion, with criminal exposure to HIV, which does not require the transmission of the virus and often, as in the cases of spitting and biting, does not include a realistic means of transmission. [1]

4. HIV isn't the death sentence it once was: How related deaths ...

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   HIV deaths continue to fall in 21st century. It took decades to reach current strides in HIV care, largely due to early public health failures. The first U.S. cases of AIDS emerged in 1981, though ...

5. The Supreme Court may hinder access to this HIV prevention ...

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   King, like hundreds of thousands of other Americans, takes PrEP – preexposure prophylaxis – daily and by doing so, reduces his risk of contracting HIV through sex by 99%. The club DJ and event ...

6. Pre-exposure prophylaxis - Wikipedia

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   The abbreviation PrEP now typically refers to pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV prevention, the use of antiviral drugs as a strategy for the prevention of HIV/AIDS. [2] PrEP is one of a number of HIV prevention strategies for people who are HIV negative but who have a higher risk of acquiring HIV, including sexually active adults at increased risk of contracting HIV, people who engage in ...

7. Prevention of HIV/AIDS - Wikipedia

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   The Partners PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) trial was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [98] and conducted by the International Clinical Research Center at the University of Washington. The trial followed 4758 heterosexual couples in Kenya and Uganda, in which one individual was HIV positive and the other was HIV negative. [97]

8. HIV is no longer a death sentence. But why is a viable cure ...

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   And antiviral treatment has changed HIV from a death sentence in the early '80s to people with HIV now having a normal life expectancy. People with HIV on antiviral drugs can safely have babies.

9. Management of HIV/AIDS - Wikipedia

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   Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) provides HIV-negative individuals with medication—in conjunction with safer-sex education and regular HIV/STI screenings—in order to reduce the risk of acquiring HIV. [40] In 2011, the journal Science gave the Breakthrough of the Year award to treatment as prevention. [41]