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

HOUSTON — The fight against HIV has come a long way, and new advancements in prevention are changing the game. One of the latest breakthroughs is a long-lasting injectable form of PrEP (pre-exposure ...

"Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is the most important concept in the [HIV] prevention field today," Robert Grant told the Infectious Disease Society of America at their annual meeting in San Diego.

The “enormous revelation” that drugs can be used to prevent catching HIV has benefitted millions and helped slash ...

Though an antiretroviral medication called PrEP provides near-perfect protection against HIV, patients must often surmount ...

A couple of years ago, Matthew Hurley got the kind of text people fear. It said: "When was the last time you were STD tested?" Someone Hurley had recently had unprotected sex with had just tested ...

When Matthew Hurley was looking to take PrEP to prevent HIV, the doctor hadn’t heard of the medicine, and when he finally did prescribe PrEP, the bills sent to Hurley were expensive … and wrong. “I ...

PrEP, vaccines, and other ways to deliver drugs to prevent HIV infection were among the highlights of the HIV Research for Prevention conference, or HIVR4P, held last week in Chicago. Studies have ...

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Tuesday, the Trump administration announced that it’s launching a new federal program to help thousands of uninsured Americans access prEP, the life-saving HIV prevention drug, ...

The Illinois Department of Public Health has issued a standing order that will allow residents to obtain the HIV preventive medication known as PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) directly from a ...

The FDA has approved lenacapvir, a twice-yearly injection to prevent HIV infection that could improve adherence rates compared to other PrEP medications. The drug, which will be sold under the brand ...