John Durant
NYMag on Truvada in the gay community:http://nymag.com/news/features/truvada-hiv-2014-7/ …
2/ As Truvada usage climbs, condom usage will continue to give way to barebacking
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3/ As barebacking with multiple partners climbs, microbes will reassert themselves -- as they always do when a network grows larger, denser
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4/ Expect Truvada-resistant strains of HIV to emerge and other STDs to spread (antibiotic resistant gonorrhea, syphilis, HSV)
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5/ None of this is complicated to understand or predict.
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6/ The more interesting question: which of these STDs alters the brain to induce host behavior that effectively spreads the pathogen?
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@johndurant According to Wik, the 99% figure is from a modeling study, not clinical trial. Trials are closer to 50% reduction.
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Seth Largo
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