It was born as a treatment for HIV but the truth is that a drug developed by the Gilead laboratory is gaining more and more followers as a substitute solution for the traditional condom or condom.
Its name is Truvada, it contains a combination of the antiretrovirals tenofovir and emtricitabine and, in the United States, it is already part of the treatments accepted in co-payment mode by the vast majority of private health insurance or the Obamacare program.
This drug is basically 99% effective against AIDS , apart from being effective as a contraceptive and according to the laboratory itself, 40% of users are women . Regarding its side effects, it can affect the kidney, give headaches and nausea during the first months.
Will this medicine replace the condom? At the moment the company that distributes Truvada has not begun to promote the drug as such but there are already discordant voices that affirm that extending the use of a pill instead of the condom as a method when practicing sexual intercourse could trigger the contagion of others sexually transmitted diseases such as gonorrhea or chlamydia.
At the moment the drug is only available in the United States, Brazil and South Africa and is in the process of being approved in France.
