![]() ![]() He has called gay men who take it “cowards.” They should just use condoms, he said, rather than take an antiviral that will lessen “your energy to fight, to get involved, to do anything.” Larry Kramer, a founding member of ACT UP and a critic of using the drug preventively, has opposed it on different grounds. ![]() Truvada is the belated fruit of activist groups such as ACT UP, whose crowning achievement in the 1990s was forcing drug companies and the Food and Drug Administration to adopt patient-led decision-making processes that resulted in the development of the first medicines that would treat and, for many, halt the destruction of AIDS.īut this month’s Truvada recommendation was introduced without such direct involvement, one reason it has inspired such controversy among gay men. Two weeks ago, the Centers for Disease Control officially recommended that sexually active HIV-negative gay men and other people at risk for contracting HIV avail themselves of Truvada, an antiretroviral drug otherwise used to treat people who are already HIV positive. ![]()
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