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1 4 GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN SHOULD TAKE HIV PREVENTN PILL: CDC

One four sexually active gay and bisexual men should be takg daily meditns to help prevent HIV, the vis that AIDS, acrdg to a new report om the Centers for Disease Control and CDC says the dg treatment, lled preexposure prophylaxis or PrEP -- marketed unr the brand name Tvada -- n rce their risk of sexually acquired HIV by more than 90 percent.

Young gay and bisexual men showed a signifint crease new fectns om 2008 to 's more, about 13 percent of all people fected and 50 percent of youth wh HIV do not know they have , makg more likely they'll advertently transm the disease to others. The groups clu:Anyone volved an ongog relatnship wh a person who is already fected wh HIVGay or bisexual men who have had anal sex whout a ndom or been diagnosed wh an STD the past 6 monthsHeterosexual men or women who do not regularly e ndoms durg sex wh partners of unknown HIV stat who are at substantial risk of HIV fectn (e. ” Those featured the ad clu a gay uple, a transgenr woman and young people of lor — groups disproportnately affected by HIV.

“Hontly, we should have ed a ndom, but we got distracted, ” a gay man says to his partner while bed. “When velopg this mpaign, was important to that the materials feature a diverse group of dividuals who are reprentative of the muni most impacted by HIV, cludg young Black and Lato gay men, as well as cis-genr and transgenr women, ” Gilead said a ’s no cince, then, that those featured the TV ad reprent the high-risk groups.

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