The Abandoned Trials of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for HIV: What Went Wrong?

Open Access

19 July 2005

journal article
Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine

Vol. 2 (9), e234
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020234

Abstract

The dramatic protests that shut down trials of tenofovir as pre-exposure prophylaxis against HIV may prove damaging in our fight against the HIV pandemic.

Keywords

PRE-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS
AIDS
HIV
THAI PEOPLE
CLINICAL TRIALS
HUMAN SEXUAL BEHAVIOR
PROPHYLAXIS
THAILAND

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