The “grade A” endorsement means that two additional drugs should be covered under the Affordable Care Act. By Apoorva Mandavilli Apoorva Mandavilli has reported on the H.I.V. epidemic for more than 20 ...

(RTTNews) - Gilead Sciences, Inc. (GILD) said Tuesday that the China National Medical Products Administration or NMPA has approved a pre-exposure prophylaxis indication for its blockbuster HIV drug ...

A major health insurer has notified policy holders that it will no longer cover Gilead Sciences’ drug Descovy for pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, and will instead require them to switch to Truvada, ...

That experience moved Hurley to seek out PrEP, shorthand for preexposure prophylaxis. The antiretroviral medication greatly ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Advocates from AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) stepped up efforts to ensure that Gilead Sciences, Inc. be held accountable for promoting off-label use of Truvada for use ...

Truvada clears from the bloodstream within 2 to 5 days, but may remain present in cells for 7 to 10 days. Taking it once a day is important for it to be effective. Truvada is a prescription medication ...

GlaxoSmithKline’s ViiV Healthcare unit has been hoping to launch its PrEP challenger to simultaneously help both men and women prevent HIV. But that plan depended on very optimistic expectations for ...

Friday, May 20, 2022 (San Diego, U.S.)—Research from the University of California released in Clinical Infectious Diseases demonstrates that ingestible sensor-enabled Truvada®, taken as pre-exposure ...

Long-acting injections of cabotegravir administered every two months were more effective at preventing HIV than daily Truvada for gay and bisexual men and transgender women, researchers reported last ...

A long-awaited generic version of Truvada, used for both HIV treatment and PrEP, went on the market Friday, October 2. But the wholesale cost of the new pill from Teva Pharmaceuticals – about $1,455 – ...

It’s unfair and frankly stupid that we have to worry about other illnesses while a pandemic rages its way through our country. But life goes on, and so do all the other things that threaten ...