PEP is a course of treatment that can prevent HIV transmission after a person is potentially exposed to the virus via infected blood, genital secretions or bodily fluids. Often coined the “HIV morning-after pill,” PEP must be started within 72 hours after a person is put at risk. But un...
this is highly unlikely. You are correct: the choice of whether to take PEP is ultimately up to you. There is a very slight HIV risk from this failed-condom episode; however, personally, I would not advise that PEP
Anti-HIV treatmenthelps you live a long time because it blocks the virus from making copies of itself, which helps keep your immune system healthy. Most people who take their medication every day will see the levels of virus in their blood drop down to undetectable levels, meaning that labora...
Although two drugs used as PrEP can prevent HIV from taking hold in the body, PEP—which is essentially very early treatment—requires a stronger three-drug regimen. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’sPEP guidelines, last updated in 2016, recommendtenofovir disoproxil fumarate/emtricitab...
HIV is suppressed if it is there. And therefore very difficult to measure in any tests we have. But then stopping the meds, and re-checking these tests, is the only way to know if the meds worked to prevent infection or not. There may not have been other tests to do just after comp...