Nowadays, there are many ways to prevent HIV infection. The best ways to prevent HIV is to remain abstinentnot have sex at all, or ever share needles. Other options to lower the risk of HIV infection include wearing condoms and taking pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) or post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) as appropriate. Condoms ​Since HIV is a […]

Another game changer in HIV prevention strategies is PEP (post-exposure prophylaxis).​While PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) is a medicine taken to prevent HIV infection from sex or injectional drug use (among possiblerisky behaviors), PEP is taken after a possible exposure to HIV.  PEP is taken to avoid the virus from developing in the body.​ It is important […]

What is PrEP ? ​A game changer for HIV prevention strategies, PrEP, or pre-exposure prophylaxis, is a medicine that people who do not have HIV can take in order to avoid contracting HIV when they are exposed to the virus from condomless sex or injection drug use. ​PrEP is especially effective in reducing the risk […]

HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus. The human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus (“lenti” means “slow” in Latin; a type of virus that causes chronic and deadly diseases in humans and mammals that is characterized with long incubation periods) that attacks the cells of the immune system, which weakens the body’s defense against infections and diseases. ​If […]