By Haley Fretes, Public Relations Intern at WellFlorida Council
Pre-Exposure
Prophylaxis (PrEP) is a comprehensive HIV prevention strategy where people at
extremely high risk for HIV take daily HIV medications to lower their chances
of getting infected from sex or injection drug use. (CDC, 2018).
In
July 2012, the US Food and Drug Administration approved the use of Truvada, a
single pill that combines two HIV medicines (tenofovir and emtricitabine), for
use as PrEP (Florida DOH, 2018). When taken daily, the medication in your
bloodstream can often stop HIV from taking hold […]
