People who took a daily pill to protect against HIV were well protected against catching the virus — even when they had unprotected sex and caught other sexually transmitted diseases, researchers reported Monday.
Only two people out of about 500 taking part in the study got infected over the four-year study, the team reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
And that was even though people taking the pills continued to do risky things, like have anal sex without condoms, said Megan Coleman of the Whitman-Walker clinic in Washington, D.C., who worked on the study.
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