Opinion: Stop squandering opportunities to end AIDS: be responsive to the needs of HIV prevention users

For HIV prevention products, to paraphrase the old adage: You can build it, but if you can't explain it, make it accessible and trusted, and create community support for it,…

Ten years ago this month, the Food and Drug Administration approved a daily pill that was up to 99% effective in preventing infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Expectations were high that this approach, known as oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), could change the course of the AIDS pandemic.

It hasn’t.

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