Truvada 90% effective at preventing HIV?

I just read an article about Truvada being used as preventive medication. Negatives: It's expensive and you have to take a pill everyday.
Positives: It's 90% effective at preventing HIV infection.

Used alone, you'd be less safe than using a condom and you'd be wide open to every other STD.

Used with a condom, you'd nearly be bulletproof.

Have you heard about this drug?

Probably targeted to couples where one is HIV+ and the other doesn't want to be HIV+.

Kind of like trusting a bullet proof vest to save your life when you could just avoid getting shot at.

Well said Mr. Barleycorn - WELL said!!!

I think that ANYTHING you can do to lower your risk of contracting a fatal disease is worth serious consideration as a highly sexually active person. It definitely can't hurt, except maybe your wallet, although who can put a price on your life?

I think that ANYTHING you can do to lower your risk of contracting a fatal disease is worth serious consideration as a highly sexually active person. It definitely can't hurt, except maybe your wallet, although who can put a price on your life? Originally Posted by MsDeborah

The price of the drug is high, but if it were more affordable I could see it being used by professional ladies just like birth control pills.

Birth control pills + condom use = best odds at not getting preggers.
Truvada + condom use = best odds at not getting HIV.
In both cases you take a pill every day.

Only simple minded people think these are either/or choices.

But they'd never dare say a negative word about birth control pills being DANGEROUS because everyone will stop using condoms. No, they save that silly argument for this life saving drug.

Kind of like trusting a bullet proof vest to save your life when you could just avoid getting shot at. Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn

To correct your example, a condom would be a physical barrier like a bulletproof vest. Truvada would be like a magic potion that makes you nearly bulletproof. The safest option is BOTH.

To correct your example, a condom would be a physical barrier like a bulletproof vest. Truvada would be like a magic potion that makes you nearly bulletproof. The safest option is BOTH. Originally Posted by Longermonger

Hm. That would be stage 3 of Tequila:

Stage 1: I'm rich.
Stage 2: I'm good looking.
Stage 3: I'm bulletproof.
Stage 4: I'm invisible.

Hm. That would be stage 3 of Tequila:

Stage 1: I'm rich.
Stage 2: I'm good looking.
Stage 3: I'm bulletproof.
Stage 4: I'm invisible. Originally Posted by LNK

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eceSHKqwUPY

There are five levels of drinking.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/26/he...-hiv.html?_r=0

Kind of like trusting a bullet proof vest to save your life when you could just avoid getting shot at. Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn

People in long term relationships with poz people don't want to have to wear a condom every time they have sex for the rest of their lives.

An HIV+ person who is on proper medications (and is responding to them normally) will likely have an undetectable viral load. That plus Truvada makes sex with an HIV+ partner safer than sex with a stranger even if a condom is used.