Despite highly effective HIV prevention drugs on the market, only a fraction of those at risk in the U.S. are taking them — or even know they're an option. It's called pre-exposure prophylaxis, or ...

The CDC estimates 2.2 million Americans could benefit from HIV prevention drugs, but just over a quarter of that group have ...

Gilead Sciences' new HIV prevention drug has been added to CVS Health's commercial insurance plans, the drugmaker's CEO ...

Gilead has developed a 1-every-6-month injection to prevent HIV. The medication will sell for $14,000 a shot. With numerous proposed major cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act in congress, ...

A drug currently used to treat certain HIV infections has also, on Wednesday, received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration to be used to prevent HIV. Gilead Sciences, maker of the drug, ...

Taken as prescribed, PrEP — shorthand for preexposure prophylaxis — is 99% effective in protecting people against sexual ...

Kenya has taken a major step towards expanding HIV prevention options after the Ministry of Health formally recommended the ...

How Does Yeztugo Work to Prevent HIV? HIV is a virus that has a coating around it, which is called a capsid. In order for HIV to make copies of itself and spread within your body, it needs to get ...

In June, the US Food and Drug Administration approved a new drug that could transform HIV prevention. People at risk of HIV can get an injection of lenacapavir every six months and be almost ...

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 ...