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A "Morning Before" Pill to Prevent HIV Infection

In the next decade, people may begin taking HIV medications to prevent contracting the AIDS virus, much the same way people take malaria pills. A somewhat odd study of macaques done by a group of researchers with the CDC demonstrated that two anti-retroviral medications, Emtricitabine and Tenofovir, were relatively successful at stopping HIV-like infections in the monkeys. This is great news if it turns out to work in humans. The weird part was how the researchers chose to expose the macaques to the disease. Let's say they really went for realism. More »

7:30 AM on Tue Feb 5 2008
By Annalee Newitz
1,789 views, 30 comments

Latest by n/a: @Merlinhoot: Oooh. Be as well as you can for as long as you can, dude. more »