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Despite Japan’s current approval of an HIV drug for each remedy and preventative use, its excessive price along with inadequate data and consciousness are hindering efforts to broaden entry to the drugs, specialists and neighborhood leaders say.
The drug, identified by its model title Truvada, is developed by U.S. drugmaker Gilead Sciences. It was first authorised to be used as a pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) — remedy to forestall HIV infections — within the United States in 2012. It has since been used globally as a normal methodology to forestall an infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
PrEP reduces the chance of an infection throughout intercourse by about 99% when taken as prescribed, and through intravenous drug use by at the very least 74%, in keeping with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
