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Switching course, Gilead markets HIV drug for prevention [FOX News]

Gilead Sciences, Inc. (GILD) 
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Company Research Source: FOX News
NEW YORK –   Gilead Sciences Inc has begun marketing its HIV treatment Truvada in a way thousands of consumers already use it - to prevent infection with the virus that causes AIDS. The company introduced Truvada to the U.S. market in 2004 for HIV treatment. In 2012, Gilead won approval to market it for prevention after two large, peer-reviewed studies showed it also was effective at preventing infections in healthy people. But the company decided against promoting the drug as a preventative treatment, deferring to patient advocates who feared it could encourage promiscuity and unsafe practices, such as having sex without condoms. Even without Gilead's help, many consumers learned Truvada was more than 90 percent effective in tests at preventing HIV infection. In 2014, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended it as an option for people at high risk for HIV infection. As many as 90,000 people in the United States used the drug for prevention, or pre Show less Read more
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