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...Even more tantalizing than the microbicides is the idea of taking a pill before intercourse or other high-risk behavior, and thereby becoming protected from HIV. Drugs for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) were born from the success of programs that prevent mother-to- child transmission; since ARVs given to women pre- and post- delivery are effective in reducing the transmission of HIV to the child, some experts believe that using ARVs before exposure to HIV may have the same effect in protecting partners. Five trials, all involving two compounds, Tenofovir or Truvada, are now underway in Thailand, Botswana, Peru, West...
Another nine percent of respondents to the survey, which polled 2,029 individuals in high-risk hurricane areas across eight Southern states, said they were unsure if they would evacuate...
...which required recipients of any government money to "maintain a drug-free workplace." In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected arguments that the federal drug-testing programs were unreasonable searches and seizures, finding a Fourth Amendment exception for the government's "special need" to keep druggies out of high-risk jobs...
...among the standard battery of tests for Americans, age 13 to 64. The CDC claimed that 250,000 Americans afflicted with HIV are unaware that they are hosts to the virus and that these people are most responsible for its proliferation. Previously, the CDC only recommended such testing to high-risk groups such as gay men and intravenous drug users—a stigmatizing policy which was inconsistent with their mission of reducing HIV transmission to the maximum extent possible. We commend the CDC’s new initiative for advancing the important process of dissociating this lethal infection, which...
Orenstein said that the technology will be useful in high-risk pregnancies, although LONO also hopes to establish a home market for fetal heart monitors...