US Panel Recommends New Tool to Prevent HIV Infections Daniel Leyva - Latino Commission on AIDS
go to original May 14, 2012

An advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration recommended that Truvada, an antiretroviral medication used to treat HIV, should be used as a new prevention tool for people that are at high risk of being exposed to HIV. This strategy, known as Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, or PrEP, would be integrated into existing HIV prevention tools in order to enhance our prevention efforts across the country and territories.

The Latino Commission on AIDS commends this new opportunity to prevent HIV infection in the most at risk communities. For African American and Latino men who have sex with men and women of color, who continue to experience disproportionate rates of HIV infection, this new strategy could represent a turning point in our efforts to prevent HIV.

“We believe that this new prevention tool, along with condom use and other prevention strategies will help dramatically reduce HIV infection in all of our communities” stated Guillermo Chacón, President of the Latino Commission on AIDS. The Latino Commission on AIDS is committed to educating our communities at a local, regional, and national level to ensure that this new prevention strategy is understood so that PrEP can be implemented effectively and responsibly.

dleyva@latinoaids.org

The Latino Commission on AIDS (LCOA) is a nonprofit membership organization founded in 1990 dedicated to fighting the spread of HIV/AIDS in the Latino/Hispanic communities. The Commission is the leading national Latino AIDS organization coordinating National Latino AIDS Awareness Day and other prevention and advocacy programs in more than 40 States and Puerto Rico. For more information visit: www.latinoaids.org or www.nlaad.org. UNIDOS PODEMOS / UNITED WE CAN

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